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US AIR FOR ACAD Y 

BRARY 

Special Bibliography Series 

OCTOBER 1959 
This bibliography was prepared by 

Captain De D. Zink E of the Department of 

English with the assistance of the Library 

staff. 

Nineteenth Century American Literature, an 

undergraduate course offered by the Department of English, and is a selective listing 

of sources available on the subject. 

It was originally compiled for 

* * * * * 

Call numbers indicate that books 

now available in the Academy Library. 

quiries regarding periodical articles lis 

in this bibliography should be made to the 

reference librarians. 

i 
ELEVEN 

TABLE OF CONTENTS 

Henry Adams 

1838-1918 .................................... 1 

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) 

1835-1910 .................................... 6 

William Dean Howells 

1837-1920 o.o....,...o..o~.....o..0...o.....~.3~ 

Herman Melville 

1819-1891.. ..o..o~.o..o~.o.~.o~.o.o..........43 

Walt Whitman 

1819-1892. ................................... 61 

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Adam, Henry. A Adam reader, Introd, by 

Elizabeth Stevenson, ed. 1st ed, Garden City, 

Ne Y., Doubleday, 1958, (E 175.5 AZlA8) 

Contains his essays and letters with editorial 

comment . 

1 
Secondary Sources: Books 

Blackmur, Richard P. The expense of greatness, in 

Harcourt, Brace, 1955. (FS 121 B62) 

I1 ... The value of Adams for us: the double 

value of his scsupuloils attitude toward his 

unifying notions and of the human aspirations 

he was able to express under them." 

Brooks, Van Wyck. - New : Indian summer, 

1865-1915. pp. 25Q- w York, Dutton, 

1940. (PS 234 B87) 

Provides an interesting insight inla 

Harvard days, as we11 as his persona 

generally. 

c ommager, H. S. - The American mind. an -' - 

tion of American thought and character since 

- the 1880's. -- - 

New Haven, Conn., Yale University 

Press, 1950. (E 169.1 C73) 

Levenson, Jacob C. The mind and art of Henry 

Adamso Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1957. 

(E 175.5 A21L) 

---I_- 

Good chapters OR the History - and Chartres. 

Samuels, Ernest. Henry Adams, the middle years. 

Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press of Harvard 

University Press, 1958. (E 175 A21) 

- 

Contains a bibliography. 

. - The young Adams. Cambridge, 

Mass., Harvard University Press, 1948. 

(E 175.5 A21S) 

Contains a bibliography. 

2 
al, eds. 3 ~01s. Vole PI. pp. 1080-1103. 

New York, hcmillan, 1948. (Ref PS 88 L77) 

A stimulating essay on Adams. 

3 
y Sources: Ar 

Baym, M. I. Henry Adams and the critics. 

American Scholar 15:79-89* Winter '46. 

Critics of Henry kldams have been taken in 

by his pose of failure and '!have ignored 

those passages in the Education which 

actually contradict and cancel the notion 

of failure. 'I 

Cairns, John, C. %he successful quest of Henry 

Adams. South Atlantic Quarterly 57: 

Spring '58. 

Creek, H. L. The medievalism of Henry Adams. 

South Atlantic Quarterly 24:86-97, anu;apy '25. 

Hume, R. A. The style and literary background of 

Henry Adams. American Literature 16:296-315, 

January '45. 

Deals principally with the Education, 

Kariel, Henry S. The limits of social science: 

Henry Adams' quest for order. American 

Political Science Review 50:1074-2092, December '56. 

A "re-examination of his approach to his 

world" reveals a "cluster of attitudes and 

preoccupations which clearly anticipate 

much of what is significant in the work of 

. social scientists" today. His presentation of this approach "was so consistent, 

elaborate, and thoroughgoing -- and yet so 

free from the burden of technical jargon -- 

that intuitions and goals unclear or concealed in modern social science may be 

illuminated by a retracing of his search 

for genuine knowledge of society, by a 

retracing of his tenacious effort to cut 

through an infinite succession of wholly 

baffling events. *I 

4 
Nichols, Re Fe The dynamic interpretation of 

history. - New 8:163-178, 

June '35. 

Stone, James. Henry hdans' philosophy of history. 

New - England 

'41. 

14 : 538-54.8, September 

White, Lynn, Jr. Dynamo and Virgin reconsidered, 

American Scholar 27:183-194, Spring '58. 

By an examination of the tecnnology of the 

middle ages, Mr. White shows that the 

dichotomy symbolized by the dynamo an 

the *Virgin is not a valid one. 

Virgin and the dynamo are not opposing 

principles permeating the universe: they 

are allies." He concludes that the nature 

of reality does not lend itself to "nezt 

opposing categories." 

"The 

5 
S L 

Primary Sources: Books 

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Intxod. and notes, HenF Mash 

smith, ed. Boston, Houghton MiffLFn, 1958. 

Comprehensive and dependable nnalys€s of 

the novel. 

e The -- 

Charles NeFder, _1___ 

A chronological arrangement of muc 

been published before. The edit0 

to have indud 

words of previ 

This edition s 

Both Twain's surviving daughter, C 

the editor have withheld material for various 

Fir. Neider challenges the judgment 

and DeVoto in this edition. 

reasons. 

of Paine 

Edited and 

The love letters of Mark Twain. 

with introd. by Dixon Wecter. 1st -- -- 

ed. New York, Harper, 1949. (PS 1331 .A3 W3) 

Mark Twain in eruption. Edited and _I_ 

with introd, by BernardDeVoto. New York and 

London, Harper, 1940. (PS 1331 .A45) ro 

Material based on unpublished Twain papers 

on a variety of subjects. Written over 

most of his life. 

Mark Twain of the Enterprise. 

(PS 1302 S64) 

I_ -- 

Henry Nash Smith, ed, 

of California Press, 1957. 

Twain's writing done for the Virginia City 

Enterprise in 1562-64. 

Berkeley, University 
0 rod . by Aa Be Paine, 3 

1924. (PS 1331 .A2 Pl4) 

e Yirk Twain's letters, arranged with 

comment by A. B. Paine, ed. 2 vols, 

and London, Harper, 1917. (PS I33 

e Mark Twain's notebook, prepared 

for publication with comments by A. B. Pabne. 

New York and London, Warpew, 1935. 

(PS 1331 .Ab) 

. The portable Mark Twai ard - -"-.I-.-- 

DeVoto, ed. New York, Viking Press, 

(PS 1302 D51) 

Traveling with -- the innocents 

abroad; Hark Twain's original reports from 

Europe and the Iloly Land. Daniel M. McKeithan, 

ed. 1st ede Norman, University of Oklahoma 

Press, 1958. 

-- 

All of the fifty-eight letters Twain 

wrote for the San Francisco Daily Alta 

California or other papers, with useful 

editorial comment. 

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Secondary Sources: Books 

Asselineau, Roger. - The Of 

- Mark Wain - from 1910-1950. 

1954. 

Paris, Didierr 

Contains an excellent bibliography. 

BePlamy, Gladys. - Mark Twain 7- as a literary artist, 

1st ed. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 

1950. (PS 1338 B43) 

See pp. 1319-140 and 249-265 fox Twain's 

techniques for achieving humor. Good summary of Twain's style on pp. 264 

important for Twain's religious 

ideas. 

Blair, Walter. Native American humor, 0-1900 . pp. 1474.62, New York, American Book Company, 

1937 0 

Mark Twain as an American humorist in whose 

work most of the important trends of native 

American humor culminate. Bibliography of 

the first editdons of Twain's important 

works of humor, p. 195. 

Brashear, wnnie MI Mark Twain, -son of - Missouri. 

Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina 

Press, 1934. (PS 1331 B82) 

An examination of Twain's boyhood envfronment which tends to refute the Brooks's 

thesrs. Also an exhaustive investigation 

of his reading which seems to indicate 

Twain's debt to 18th century radical 

thinkers and humorists. 

Brooks, Van Wyck. - The ordeal -- of Mark Twain. 

New York, Noonday Press, 1955. (PS 1331 B87) 

First published h~ 1920, this work revived 

interest in Wain. Brooks's thesis, since 

8 
generally refuted, was a view of Twain as 

a natural artist nd rebellious pioneer 

frustrated by his middle class environment, 

by the puritanical and materialistic 

respectability represented in his youth by 

his mother, Jane, and in manhood by his wife, 

Olivia, and his friend, Howell.se 

DeVoto, Bernard. Mark Twain -at - work. Cambridge, 

Plass., brvard University Press, 1942. 

A study of the evolution of --.II) Tom 

Huck Finn, 

and 

-____11_1 

e - Mark Twain's 

Among other things, this work 

thesis. Also, one of the best s 

the important facts of frontier 

Mississippi Valley folklore, both of which 

were significant influences upon main' 

writing. 

Find 

Little, Brown, 1932. (PS 1331 

(Particularly 7 Tom Sawyer and _Is__. 

E!liott, George PI Wonder for Huckleberry Finn, 

in Twelve original essays 7 on preat American 

novels. Charles Shapiro, ed. Detroit, Mich,, 

Wayne State University Press, 1958. 

(PS 371 S52) 

Ferguson, DeLancey. - Mark Twain: -- man and legend, 

Indianapolis, Ind., Bobbs-Merrill, 1943. 

One of the best biographies. In his discussion of Innocents abroad, Ferguson says 

that Twain's mature style is in evidence at 

this point. Twain was "writing as he was 

always thenceforward to write: sometimes 

producing eloquent and genuinely humorous 

prose, sometimes producing buffoonery and 

never completely certain which was which." 

9 
Howebls, William Dean. Ply Mark Twain: reminiscences and criticisms, in ___L The shock _._.( of 

tion. Edrnund Wilson, ed. 2nd ed, New York, 

Farrar, Straw and Cudahy, 1955. (PS 55 'cJ74) 

L 

A vivid personal izpression of Wain by a 

friend of long standing. Of value despite 

the fact that it may be over-appreciative. 

Long, Hudson E. Mark Twain handbook, New York, 

Mendricks House , 1958 e 

A valuable summary of Twain scholarship. 

Paine, Albert B. Mark Twain, a 

York and London, Harper, 1912. 

Detailed but not always depend 

Rourke, Constance. American humor: 

- the national character. pp. 167-1 

City, N. Y., Doubleday, 19%. 

Mark Twain as a humorist in the American 

tradition. 

Scott, Arthur L., e& __I Mark Twain, selected criticism. 

Dallas, Tex., Southern Methodist University 

Press, 1955. (PS 1331 S4Z) 

Stovall, Floyd, ed. Eight American authors, - a 

NG York, Modern Language Association 

review of research I and criticism. pp. 319- 

363. 

of America, 1956. (PS 201 S88) 

Wagenknecht, Edward. Cavalcade 7- of the American 

novel, -from - the birth -- of the nation -I to the 

middle -- of the century. pp. 109-126. New York, 

Holt, 1952. (PS 371 W13) 

. Mark Twain, the man and his work. 

A sound biography with valuable comments on 

Twain's writing. 

- ----- 

New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1935. 

10 
Wecter, Dixon, rk Twain, in 

--I____ of the U. S. Robert E. Spil 

Macmillan, 1948, (Ref PS 88 L77) 

3 Valse Vole IXe ppe 917-9 

Brief but excellent estimate of Twain. 

__b Sam Clemens - of Hannibal. Boston, 

Houghton Mifflin, 1952, (PS 1332 W38) 

Best study of Twain's boyhood years. 
Secondary Sources: Articles 

Baldanza, Frank. The structure of Huckleberry 

Finn. American Literature 27~347-355, 

November '55. 

I' ... without advance planning, and spurred 

by momentary impulses, Park Twain -- in all 

probability unconsciously -- constructed 

whole passages of 

aesthetic principle of repetition and 

Bergman, Herbert. The Whitman-Twain eni 

- Mark Twain Journal 10:22-23, ldinte 

... despite some common belief 

and Clemens' differing viewpoints a 

caused them to fail to appreciate CI 

work. 'I 

'1 

Blair, Walter. Why Huck and Jim went downstream. 

College English 

Branch, E. M. The 

18:106-107, November '56. 

two providences: thematic 

form in Huckleberry - Finn, 

11:188-195, January *SO. 

English 

Goold, Edgar H., Jr. Mark Twain on the writing 

of fiction. American Literature 26:141-153, 

May '54. 

A discussion of Twain's theories concerning 

"the use of observation and experience by 

the writer, adherence to the law of probability, 

the use of concrete details, and the need for 

realistic characterization. 

Gullason, Thomas Arthur. The "fatal" ending of 

Huckleberry - Finn. 

86-91, March '57. 

American Literature 29: 

Twain's "primary objective in the 'fatal' 

last chapters is to ridicule the 

12 
X'QiIELI'ItiC t adition as exemp 

wyer eoe; and to win fina 

the realistic tradition and its hero, Huck, 

who has achieved a sense of responsibility 

and a meaningful vision of life." 

Jones, Alexander E. rk Wain and the determlinism of What is man?. American Literature 29: 

Twain's determinism was not the product of 

the personal catastrophes in the latter part 

of his life. It represented, rather, a 

ing 

his years of greatest prosperity." 

--- 

position "which Twain had entertained 

Lane, Lauriat, Jr. Wh 

great world novel. 9 

October '55. 

''It has in CO~Q~ with other world nove 

the themes of appearance versus reality, 

passage fron youth to maturity, man's 

obsession with the symbols of material 

wealth. It conveys the total vision of a 

nation or people, is epic in scope and quality, allegorical in meaning. *' 

Leaver, Florence B. Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead 

Wilson. - Mark Twain - ..----*<,. Journal 10:14-20, Winter '56, 

"Although Twain had lost some skill, this 

is a searing revelation that his bitterness 

against man and institutions was deepening 

rapidly." 

Leavis, F. R, Mark Twain's neglected classic, 

Commentary 21:128-136, February '56. 

"Pudd'nhead Wilson is a subtle and masterly 

treatment of the moral patterns of both 

human nature and civilization." 

13 
tf Its ezinence is owing 'to our mytholo 

of the West. ' The work has flaws arisinR - v 

aids disregard for artistic form ... 

and his 'imperfect sense of tone.* It is 

marred by melodrama and claptrap and some 

of the action." 

tion are not appropriate to Hucke 

The dialogue and the observa - 

Rernes, CaroL, The heart of Huckleberry Finn. 

- ins tream 13 : 8-16, November ' 55. 

The central issue is Huck's learnine! to w > - 

reject hum~ slavery, although recent 

critics have tended to obscure this fact, 

Rubenstein, Gilbert M. 

Huckkberry Finn. 

November '56. 

The moral structure of 

College English 18: 72- 76, 

Wmmrz, Edward. Huckleberry Finn: the inward 

thoughts of a generation, 

9:ll-16, Winter '52. 

Mark Twain Quarterly -------.--.I 

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D 1830-1886) 

Primary Sources: Books 

Dickinson, Emily. Letters. Thomas HI Johnson, 

edo 3 vols. Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press 

of Harvard University Press, 1958. 

(PS 1541 23) 

"The best of (the letters) ... bring her 

remarkable mind, her poetic self to vivid 

life for readers nearly a century later. " 

Poems. Thomas H. Jo 

Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press 

University Press, 1955. (Ps 154 

The definitive edition of the 

edition includes variant readings 

are compared with all known ma 
eo 

University Press, 1955. (PS 1541 ZSJ) 

An important study of her life and ideas 

with analysis of that poetry which seems 

to give biographical insights. 

16 
e Emily Dickinso 

ew 18:224-237, Spring '56, 

"Multiplicity, freedom, spontaneity: These 

are terms for much deeper aspects of the 

itself in mere punctuation, syntax, and 

grammar; or in meter, rhythm, and diction." 

inson notation than that which gathers 

Connors, D, C, The significance of Emily 

Dickinson. College English 3: 624-63 

'42. 

An appreciation of her poetic 

in terms of "the familiar la 

poetry -- Life, Nature, Love, 

Eternity . 

Emily Dickinson, the domestication of or 0 

(London) Times Literary Supplement, p e 532 , 9 September '55. 

Summary of her career and of the disputes 

over her manuscripts since her death. 

Glenn, Eunice. Emily Dickinson's poetry: a 

revaluation. Sewanee Review 51:574-588, 

October-December '43. 

Howard, William. Emily Dickinson's poetic 

A study which compares "The Dickinson 

vocabulary with other poets ... to determine 

in what ways she is unique in the words she 

uses and in what ways she conforms to patterns established by other poets.'' Mr. 

Howard finds that "it is not in the words 

that she uses but in 'the way in which she 

uses them that Emily Dickinson is most 

original. 

vocabulary. PMLA 72225-248, March '57. 

17 
Ransom, John Crowe* Emily Dickinson. 

thes - USA 15:5-20, Spring '56. 

A study of her method. 

Warren, Austin. Emily Dickinson. Sewanee Review 

65565-586, Autumn '57. 

A useful introductory essay which deals in 

a general way with Dickinson's poetic 

achievement and technique. 

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18 832 

Primary Sources: Books 

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. 7 The works of i Waldo Emerson. 22 vofs. Boston and PJefPYork, 

Houghton Mifflin, 1903-04. 

Centenary ed. One of the most complete collections. Includes notes by his son, Edward 

Waldo Emerson. 

e 

7 - and 

Edited with biog. introd. by Br 

New York, Modern Library, 1950. 

. Essays. 1st and 2nd seri 

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 83. 

(PS 1608 F83) 

- The heart - of Emerson's essays. 

Introd. and notes. Bliss Perry, ed. Boston 

and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1933. 

(PS 1608 P46) 

. - The heart - of Emerson's journals. 

Bliss Perry, ed. Boston and New York, 

Houghton Mifflin, 1926. (PS 1631 A3) 

. The letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 

Ralph L. Rusk, ed. 6 VOK. Mew York, Columbia 

University Press, 1939. 

- 

. - The portable Emerson. Introd. and 

notes. Mark Van Doren, ed. New York, Viking 

Press, 1946. (PS 1602 V24) 

. Selections - from Ralph Waldo Emerson. 

Introd. by Stephen El Whicher. Boston, Houghton 

Mifflin, 1957. 

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group of selections intended to 'Ire-es 

lish communication with one of the sernin 

minds of our literature ... 0 see past the 

familiar public image to the man." 

introduction outlines some of the difficul - 

ties which the modern reader faces in such 

a project. 

The 
cci s: B 

- The life of Emerson. New York, -_I_ - 

Dutton, 1932, (PS 1631 B87) 

Draws heavily upon the Journals. 

Cabot, James E. A memoir of 

2 vals. Bosto; and ~ewTo 

1887. (PS 31631 Cll) 

Emerson by one who knew 

Carpenter, Frederic Ives, American 

- the dream. New York, Philosophic 

1955. 

"Emerson is the major prophet of the 

(American) Dream (of a richer life for all): 

'Revolting against past tradition, reflecting 

present experience, appealing of necessit 

to the future, Fmersods thought became 

... 1 

others affirmed the dignity and beauty of 

the concept, but few were as successful as 

he in resisting the doubts and the disillus ionment . '' 

typically the American philosophy Y 

. Emerson -and - Asia. Cambridge, Mass., 

Harvard University Press, 1930. (PS 1642 A7 C29) 

Emerson's Orientalism and Neo-Platonism. 

. Emerson handbook. New York, 

Hendricks House, 1953. (PS 1631 C29) 

Topical summary and guide to much of the 

literature on Emerson. 

Christy, Arthur. The - orient in American transcendentalism. New York, Columbia University 

Press, 1932. 
Firkins, 0, W. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Qn 3 

Houghton Mif flin, 1915 . A critical biography which examines, among 

other things, Emerson's poetic method and 

his philosophy. 

Hopkins, Vivian 6. Spires of form; a study - of 

Emerson's aesthetic theory. Cambridge, Mass., 

Harvard University Press, 1951. 

Jackson, 'fXolbrook. Dreamers of dreams; _I_- the rise 

New York, -__I_-- and fall of 19th century idealism. 

Farrar, Straus, 1949. (PR 469 512) 

Paatthiessen, F. 0. American renaissance; 

and expression -_I_ in the age of Emerson P an 

Whitman. pp. 3-175. London, New York, etc. 

Oxford University Press, 1941. (PS 201 

- 

Emerson as artist. One of the best critical 

discussions of Emerson. 

Miller, Perry. From Jonathan Edwards to Emerson, 

in Errand -into - the wilderness. Chap. VIIIC. 

Cambridge, Mass., Belknap Press of Harvard 

University Press, 1956. 

"In strictly historical regard moo 

There is no organic evolution of ideas from 

Edwards to Emerson ... . What is persistent, 

from the covenant theology ..a to Edwards 

and to Emerson is the Puritan's effort to 

face the image of a blinding divinity in 

the physical universe, and to look upon that 

universe without the intermediacy of ritual, 

of ceremony, of the Mass and the confessional." 

The difference between them is that Emerson 

has turned from the Calvinistic concept of 

original sin held by Edwards. 

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Sherman. Emerson% of vision; 

nature 9 American experience7 Cambridge, hss. ~ 

Harvard University Press, 1952. 

The impact of Emerson's theory of ''correspondence" on his thought, '* ... a faith 

which in turn became a way of seeing the 

universe In the light of human needs." (Paul) 

nl Perry, Bliss. Emerson today. Princeton, Ne J., 

Princeton University Press, 1931. 

* Rusk, Ralph Le The --- life of Ralph Waldo Emerson. 

New York, Scribner's, 1949. (PS 16 5) The standard biography. Includes 

bibliography. 

Spiller, Robert E. Ralph Waldo Emerso 

erary history of the U. S. Robert 

et al, eds. 3 vols. Vol I. pp. 358-387. 

New York, Macmillan, 1948. (Ref PS 88 

Excellent for Emerson's philosophy. 

-__I_- 

Stovall, Floyd, ed. Eight American authors, a 

revtew of research - and criticism. 

New York, Modern Language Association of 

America, 1956. (PS 201 S88) 

pp. 47-59. 

Whicher, Stephen F. Freedom -and - fate: an inner 

-life of - Ralph Waldo Emerson. 

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953. 

Philadelphia, 

The inner drama of opposing ideas in 

Emerson's mind. Contains a bibliography. 

Woodberry, George E. Ralph Waldo Emerson. 

New York, Macmillan, 1907. 

Still one of the most discriminating 

biographies with criticism. 

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ercy @. herson's philosophy of 

aesthetics. 

Criticism 15:350-354,%arch '57. 

Journal of Aesthetics -and - Art 

Swedenborgian in 'correspondences" between 

the spiritual arid natural worlds. 

Carpenter, Frederic Ives. William James and 

En;ers~n. American Literature 11:39-57, '39. 

Foerster, Norman, Emerson on the organic princFpfe in art. - PMLA 41:193-208, March 26. 

Gohdes, Clarence. Some remarks on Emerson's 

divinity school address. American Literature 

1:27-31, i%rch '29. 

Hopkins, Vivian C. Emerson and Bacon. American 

Literature 29:408-430, January '58. 

The influence of Francis Bacon upon 

Emerson's thought. 

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. The influence of Goethe on 

Zmerson's aesthetic theory. 

2k325-344, October '48. 

Kloeckner, Alfred J. Intellect and moral sentiment in Emerson's opinions of the "meaner 

kinds" of men. American Literature 30:322-338, 

November '58. 

An examination of a "central and constitutional doubt on Emerson's part which from the 

very beginning worked against any u 

ity €or his theories of the soul -- 

doubt of the capacity in the majority Q 

men for the kind of perception nece 

to the transcendental life. " 

Quinn, P. F. Emerson and mysticism. her 

Literature 21:397-414, January '50. 

Silver, Mildred. Emerson and the idea of progressAmerican Literature 12:1-19, Plarch '40. 

A summary of the development of his 

philosophy. 

Strauch, Carl F. Emerson and the American 

continuity. Emerson Society Quarterly 6:1-5, 

First Quarter '57. 

"An estimate of current research and a 

prophetic evaluation of Emerson as American 

Scripture ." 

Thompson, F. T. Emerson's indebtedness to 

Coferidge. 

January '26. 

Studies - in Philology 23:55-76, 

. Emerson's theory and practice of 

poetry. - PMLA 43:1170-1184, December '28. 

His debt to Coleridge and Wordsworth. 

Wellek, Rene. Emerson and German philosophy. 

- New England Quarterly 16:41-62, March '43. 

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Nathaniel Hawthorne: the 

herfcan notebooks. Randall Stewart, ed. New 

Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1932. 

Excellent for Hawthorne's notes for his 

stories. 

I___ 

-

The -best of - Hawthorne, Introd, and 

notes. Mark Van Doren, ed. New York, Rs 

Press, 1951. (PS 1852 V24) 

. The complete novels and 

Introd, by Norman Holmes Pea 

(PZ 

- _I_ 

tales. - 

New York, Modern Library, 1937. 

. - The complete -- works of Nathaniel 

Hawthorne; with - introductory notes. 

Lathrop, ed. Standard ed. 12s. Boston, 

Houghton Mifflin, 1883. 

George P, 

b - The English notebooks. Randall 

Stewart, ed. 

tion of America, 1941. 

New York, Modern Language Associa- 

. books. 

1900. (PS 1855 FOO) 

Passages -from - the Amerecan - note- 

- Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 

. The portable Hawthorne. Introd. 

and notes. Malcolm Cowley, ed. New York, 

Viking Press, 1948. (PS 1852 C87) 

4 

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Brooks, Van Wyck, The flowering -_I_ of New England; 

1815-1865, pp. 210-227, New York, Modern 

Library, 1936, 

Cantwell, Robert, Nathaniel Hawthorne, - the 

American years , New York, Rinehart, 1948. 

(PS 1881 C23) 

Chase, Richard. Hawthorne and the limits of 

romance, in The American novel 

tion, 1st ed. pp. 67-87, Gard 

Doubleday, 1957. (PS 371 C48) 

- 

COWley, &iIcoknb Five acts of 111 The Scar letter, 

in Twelve original essays om great American 

novels. Charles Shapiro, ed. Detroit, Mich., 

Wayne State-University Press, 1958. 

(PS 371 S52) 

- 

The form of The scarlet Letter is more like 

the drama than the novel, according to Cowley, 

Also, in this work, Hawthorne "applied to a 

longer work the exacting standards that he 

and Edgar Poe, working separately, had 

developed in writing their tales or short 

stories. 

- 

Ffck, Leonard 3, The light beyond; a study of 

Hawthorne's theology. Westminster, Md., II---- - - 

Newman Press, 1955. (€5 1892 F44) 

"For any students still laboring under the 

impression that Hawthorne was a transcendentalist, a skeptic, or, 'at heart,' a 

Roman Catholic, this book could serve as a 

useful corrective. 

Fogle, R. H. Hawthorne's fiction: - the light - and 

-- the dark. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 

1952. 

27 
James, Henry. Hawthorne, irr English men _-of - letters. New York, Masper, 1394, (PR 105 E58 v. 13) 

Levin, Harry. P The power v of blackness: Hawthorne, 

- Poe,~ Melville. 1st ed. lkw York., Knopf, 1958, 

(PS 1888 L66) 

Thesis: (1) Our best xinds have dwelt on 

the problem of evil; (2) Sgmbolisn is characteristic of our best fiction, a valuable 

work. (Includes bibliography) 

Matthiessen, F, 0. American renaissance; -- art and 

expression -1_11 in the age - of Emrson - and Jhitcan, 

London, New York, etc,, Oxford University 

Press, 1941. (PS 291 M44) 

Schubert, Leland. EIawthorn)? _1_1 thcartist e Chapel 

Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 

1944. 

Stewart, Randall, Nathaniel Haxthorne, - a 

biography, New Haven, Coni?,, , Yale University 

Press, 1948, (PS 18SI SS5) 

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__I 

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Best: study of Thoreau, the writer. 

Salt, Henry So -The -life of - Henry David Thoreau. 

London & FeIIing-orz-Ty~~s , kilter Scott: Publishing Company, 1350. 

This work revised in 1890 is one of the bestz 

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Stewart, Randall, ed. The American notebooks & 

Nathaniel Hawthorne New Haven, Yale University 

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Thoreau through the eyes of a friend, 

Stofler, Leo. After Kalcfen; T~OLX~U'S changing 

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Stanford University Przss, 1957. (PS 3053 S87) 

Stanford, Calif e 

Brings into focus Thoreau ' s continual. 

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Nz York, Modern Language Association 

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Whicher, George Fe Kalden revisited, Chicago, 

Brief but valuabh introductory study. 

Packard, 1945, (PS 3053 W57) 
Ada 

Harding, Walter Jack London and 

Thoreau Society Bulletin 57:1, Fall '56. 

London, in a little known story, "The nightborn," satirized Thoreads life in the 

wilderness . 

Hendr ick, George. The inf hence of Thoreau s 

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__I New England Quarterly 29:462-471, D~~~~~~~ '56, 

"Thoreau's essay offered confi 

effectiveness of deliberate re 

unjust laws, even though Gandhi 

that Indian resistance to authori 

advanced before he read the essayo" 

Hovde, Carl F. Nature into art: Thoreau's use 

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Thoreau as artist in action. 

Hyman, S. T. Henry Thoreau in our time. Atlantic 

178 : 137-146 November * 46 

Kazin, Alfred. Dry light and hard expressions. 

Atlantic 200:74-76, July '57. 

Emerson and Thoreau revealed in their journals. 

Kiviat , J. J Thoreau Is philosophical apprenticeship. - New England Quarterly 18 :51-69 , March ' 45 a 

Krutch, Joseph We A kind of pantheism. Saturday 

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West, Herbert F. Thoreau and the younger generation. Thoreau Society Bulletin 56:1, Summer 

'58. 

'While most present-day college students 

adrllire Thoreau's courage, they think his 

nonconformity outmoded e *' 

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2 vols. New York, Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1948. 

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__._ and - __I_ 

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The last edition which Whitman supervised, 

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Useful for analysis of scholarshi 

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Carpenter, Frederic I. ~E'c~.cI~L~ literatur-2 ancl 

New York, Philosophical Library, 

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Whitman's imagery is a "principal s 

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myth, South 

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