DALA: Digital American Literature Anthology
Edited by Michael O'Conner, Millikin University
Transcendental Theory and Practice, An American Romanticism
Resources for Lecture Building and Extended Study - Copyrighted Materials
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Author Biographies
Ralph Waldo Emerson [American Passages][Norton Anthology][Prentice Hall Anthology][Heath Anthology]
Henry David Thoreau [Norton Anthology][Prentice Hall Anthology][Heath Anthology]
Margaret Fuller [American Passages][Norton Anthology]
Unit Background, Secondary Sources
American Transcendentalism by Donna Campbell
Concord Massachusetts 1810 - 1890 [Chronology] by Donna Campbell
Margaret Fuller, Woodlief's Transcendentalism Web
Study Questions for Emerson's "Self Reliance" by Anne Woodlief
Norton Anthology, 8th ed.: 1820-1865
The Romantic Period: Essayists and Poets by Kathryn VanSpanckeren
Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller
Primary Sources
The Web of American Transcendentalism by Anne Woodlief
Multimedia
American Passages, Unit 4: Spirit of Nationalism
Popular Media to Accompany/Introduce Lesson
For Thoreau's Walden: lyrics to Lennon, John. "Watching the Wheels." Double Fantasy. Audio Recording. 1981.
Electronic Resources in the Public Domain in the USA
Project Gutenberg: Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Project Gutenberg: Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Project Gutenberg: Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller
Project Gutenberg: Life Without and Life Within by Margaret Fuller
Project Gutenberg: Summer on the Lakes in 1843 by Margaret Fuller