Chapter one. Emerson's resignation from the ministry "the true doctrine respecting forms"

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of abbreviations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter one. Emerson's resignation from the ministry "the true doctrine respecting forms" 9
7. Chapter two The divinity school "address" controversy "there is no dead letter but a perpetual scripture" 55
8. Chapter three Thoreau's mythological interpretation seeing through "the mist of prejudice" 81
9. Chapter four The two Theodore Parkers: interpretation, intuition, and maternal authority 115
10. Notes 151
11. Works cited 179
12. Index 187