Includes bibliographical references and index.

Greek and Roman classics / K.P. Van Anglen -- Enlightenment and Scottish common sense philosophy / Robin Grey -- Asian influences / Alan Hodder -- Puritanism / Frank Shuffelton -- Unitarianism / Dean Grodzins -- World revolutions / Michael Ziser -- Romanticism / Barbara L. Packer -- Nineteenth-century print culture / Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray -- Religion / Albert J. von Frank -- Politics and economics / Len Gougeon -- Education / Wesley T. Mott -- Environmentalist thought and action / Lance Newman -- Manifest destiny and the question of the moral absolute / Lawrence Buell -- Native American rights / Joshua David Bellin -- Antislavery reform / Sandra Harbert Petrulionis -- Woman's rights and feminism / Phyllis Cole -- Health and the body / Mary Lamb Shelden -- Transcendentalist communities / Sterling F. Delano -- Transcendental poetics : Emerson, Higginson, and the rise of Whitman and Dickinson / Ed Folsom -- Journals / Robert Sattelmeyer -- Letter writing / Robert N. Hudspeth -- Sermons / Susan L. Roberson -- Lectures and the Lyceum movement / Kent P. Ljungquist -- Conversations / Noelle A. Baker -- Transcendentalist periodicals / Todd H. Richardson -- The Dial / Susan Belasco -- Literary criticism / Jeffrey Steele -- Travel literature / Barbara L. Packer -- Nature writing / Philip F. Gura -- Biography, autobiography, and reminiscence / Robert D. Habich -- The visual arts / Albert J. von Frank -- Photography / Sean Ross Meehan -- Architecture / W. Barksdale Maynard -- Music / Ora Frishberg Saloman -- Concord / Ronald A. Bosco -- Boston and beyond / Robert J. Scholnick -- Global transcendentalism / Laura Dassow Walls -- Families and friendships / Elizabeth Addison -- Transcendental virtue / Philip Cafaro -- The Cavellian turn / Lawrence F. Rhu -- Aesthetics / Eric G. Wilson -- Science and technology / Laura Dassow Walls -- Evolutionary theory / William Rossi -- Naysayers : Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville / Richard Kopley -- The Free Religion movement / David M. Robinson -- The life and legacy of civil disobedience / Linck Johnson -- Nature writing and environmental activism / Robert E. Burkholder -- Walden : pilgrimages and iconographies / Leslie Perrin Wilson -- Twentieth-century American poetry / Saundra Morris -- The electronic age / Amy E. Earhart.