Thinking America: New England Intellectuals and the Varieties of American Identity

Note on Brief Titles

Note on Brief Titles The following abbreviations are used throughout the book. CWE Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Edward W. Emerson, 12 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903–21) EL Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Stephen E. Whicher et al., 3 vols. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959–72) ET Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits, ed. Philip Nicoloff, vol. V of The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994) JMN Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks, ed. William H. Gilman et al., 16 vols. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1960–82) Journal Henry David Thoreau, The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, ed. Bradford Torrey and Francis H. Allen, 14 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906) Letters Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. Ralph L. Rusk et al., 8 vols. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939–91) LL1 Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843–1871, Volume 1: 1843–1854, ed. Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001) LL2 Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843–1871, Volume 2: 1855–1871, ed. Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2001) PW Henry David Thoreau, Political Writings, ed. Nancy L. Rosenblum (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) W Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Walden; or Life in the Woods, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod (New York: Library of America, 1985) WJ1 William James, Writings, 1878–1899 (New York: Library of America, 1992) WJ2 William James, Writings, 1902–1910 (New York: Library of America, 1987) Thinking America ...