Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction xi
6. Textual Policies xxxv
7. Sermon CLXII [“The Lord’s Supper”] (1832) 1
8. The Uses of Natural History (1833–1835) 13
9. Nature (1836) 34
10. Humanity of Science (1836, 1847–1848) 74
11. The American Scholar (1837) 91
12. The Divinity School Address (1838) 110
13. Self-Reliance (1841) 127
14. Circles (1841) 152
15. The Transcendentalist (1842, 1849) 164
16. New England: Genius, Manners, and Customs (1843–1844) 181
17. The Poet (1844) 202
18. Experience (1844) 226
19. Nominalist and Realist (1844) 250
20. An Address Delivered in the Court-House in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844, on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies 265
21. England (1848–1852) 292
22. Uses of Great Men (1850) 312
23. The Anglo-American (1852–1855) 330
24. American Slavery (1855) 350
25. Address at the Woman’s Rights Convention (1855) 367
26. Mr. R. W. Emerson’s Remarks at the Kansas Relief Meeting in Cambridge (1856) 381
27. The Natural Method of Mental Philosophy (1858) 388
28. Fate (1860) 404
29. American Civilization (1862) 432
30. Thoreau (1862) 451
31. The President’s Proclamation (1862) 472
32. The Scholar (1863) 480
33. Character (1866) 498
34. Works and Days (1870) 517
35. Credits 536
36. Index 538