Emerson handbook
(Book)

Part I: Emerson's biography --

Problems and interpretations --

The two sides of the face --

Heredity and original genius --

From weakness to strength --

Beyond tragedy --

The problem of vocation --

Loves and friendships --

Reform and anti-slavery --

The chief biographies --

Bibliography, Part I : bibliographies: biographies, biographical articles --

Part II: Emerson's prose and poetry --

The prose works : the unpublished manuscripts, method and style --

The poetry : aesthetic and poetic theory --

Bibliography, Part II: Text : textual criticism and aesthetic theory --

Part III: Emerson's ideas --

The ideal and the real --

Transcendental idealism : mysticism: transcendentalism, romanticism, optimism and evil, "the American dream" --

Yankee realism : pragmatism: experience and nature, politics and individualism, Puritanism and "the moral law", the genteel tradition --

Bibliography, Part III: The background of Emerson's ideas, critical studies of Emerson's ideas --

Part IV: Emerson and world literature --

Sources : the ancients: the moderns --

Influences : America, nineteenth century: American reputation, America, twentieth century, England, France and Belgium, Germany, other countries --

Conclusion --

Bibliography, Part IV.