Morris Saundra - The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

CONTENTS

JOEL PORTE

DAVID M. ROBINSON

PHYLLIS COLE

ROBERT MILDER

R. JACKSON WILSON

ROBERT D. RICHARDSON, JR.

ALBERT J. VON FRANK

JEFFREY STEELE

JULIE ELLISON

CATHERINE TUFARIELLO

ROBERT WEISBUCH

SAUNDRA MORRIS

MICHAEL LOPEZ

CONTRIBUTORS

PHYLLIS COLE is Associate Professor of English and Womens Studies at Pennsylvania State, Delaware County. She has written numerous articles on American Transcendentalism and women writers and recently published Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism (Oxford, 1998).

JULIE ELLISON is Professor of English and Associate Vice President for Research at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of Emersons Romantic Style (Princeton, 1984) and Delicate Subjects: Romanticism, Gender, and the Ethics of Understanding (Cornell, 1990).

MICHAEL LOPEZ, currently an independent scholar, was Associate Professor of English at Michigan State University. His writing has appeared in Prospects, Harvard English Studies, ESQ, Prose Studies, and Philosophyand Literature. He is the author of Emerson and Power: Creative Antagonism in the Nineteenth Century (Northern Illinois University, 1996) and is the editor of an ESQ symposium on Emerson and Nietzsche (1997).

ROBERT MILDER is Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. He is editor of Critical Essays on Melvilles Billy Budd, Sailor (G. K. Hall, 1989) and, with John Bryant, of Melvilles Evermoving Dawn: Centennial Essays (Kent State, 1997). He is the author of Reimagining Thoreau (Cambridge, 1995).

SAUNDRA MORRIS is Assistant Professor of English at Bucknell University. She published, in 1997, an essay on Emersons poetry in American Literature and is coeditor, with Joel Porte, of the forthcoming Prose and Poetry of Ralph Waldo Emerson, A Norton Critical Edition. She is currently completing a book on Emersons poetry.

JOEL PORTE is Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Cornell University. Among his books are The Romance in America: Studies in Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and James (Wesleyan, 1969), Representative Man: Ralph Waldo Emerson in His Time (Oxford, 1979), and In Respect to Egotism: Studies in American Romantic Writing (Cambridge, 1991). He has edited Emerson: Prospect and Retrospect (Harvard, 1982), Emerson in His Journals (Harvard, 1982), Emerson: Essays and Lectures (Library of America, 1983), and New Essays on The Portrait of a Lady (Cambridge, 1990).

ROBERT D. RICHARDSON, JR., is an independent scholar living in Middletown, Connecticut. He has taught at Harvard, The University of Denver, the University of Colorado, Queens College and the Graduate Center of CUNY, Sichuan University, Yale, and Wesleyan. He is the author of Literature and Film (University of Indiana, 1968), Myth and Literature in the American Renaissance (University of Indiana, 1978), Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind (Berkeley, 1986), and Emerson: The Mind on Fire (Berkeley, 1995). He has edited, with Burton Feldman, The Rise of Modern Mythology (Indiana, 1972).

DAVID M. ROBINSON is Distinguished Professor of American Literature at Oregon State University and president of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society. He is the author of Apostle of Culture: Emerson as Preacher and Lecturer (University of Pennsylvania, 1982) and Emerson and the Conduct of Life (Cambridge, 1993).

JEFFREY STEELE is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of The Representation of the Self in the American Renaissance (University of North Carolina, 1987) and editor of The Essential Margaret Fuller (Rutgers, 1993).

CATHERINE TUFARIELLO received her PhD from Cornell University in 1994. She is currently an independent scholar living in Brooklyn, New York.

ALBERT J. VON FRANK is Professor of English and American Studies at Washington State University and the author of The Sacred Game: Provincialism and Frontier Consciousness in American Literature, 16301860 (Cambridge, 1985), An Emerson Chronology (G. K. Hall, 1994), and The Trials of Anthony Burns: Freedom and Slavery in Emersons Boston (Harvard, 1998). He is also coeditor of The Poetry Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson (University of Missouri, 1986) and general editor of The Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson (University of Missouri, 198992).

ROBERT WEISBUCH is president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of Emily Dickinsons Poetry (University of Chicago, 1975) and Atlantic Double-Cross (University of Chicago, 1986). He is also coeditor of Dickinson and Audience (University of Michigan, 1996).

R. JACKSON WILSON is Professor of History at Smith College. He is the author of In Quest of Community: Social Philosophy in the United States, 18601920 (Wiley, 1968) and Figures of Speech: American Writers and the Literary Marketplace from Benjamin Franklin to Emily Dickinson (Knopf, 1989). He edited Darwinism and the American Intellectual