Ralph Waldo Emerson

Scholarship on Ralph Waldo Emerson has expanded considerably during the past decade. Since Emerson is the subject of historians, philosophers, and literary scholars, there is a need for an efficient and effective means to access information within an extraordinary range of critical approaches and perspectives. This bibliography lists and annotates writings about Emerson published in English between 1980 and 1991, and complements earlier Emerson bibliographies.

Because the response to Emerson has evolved greatly over the years, the contents of this bibliography are arranged in chronological order. This arrangement allows the user to trace the progression of certain critical approaches to Emerson and to follow the development of critics who have made numerous contributions to Emerson scholarship. Each chapter is devoted to a particular year. Within each chapter, entries begin with book publications arranged alphabetically by author, followed by annual journals alphabetized by journal title and journal articles arranged by date of publication. A detailed index locates works by subject, author, and title.

ROBERT E. BURKHOLDER is Associate Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University and President of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society. He is currently at work on a history of Emerson's critical reception.

JOEL MYERSON is Carolina Research Professor of American Literature at the University of South Carolina, where he edits the annual Studies in the American Renaissance. He is President of the Thoreau Society and is now preparing, with Ronald A. Bosco, a multivolume edition of The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson.