Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02801-2 - Ralph Waldo Emerson in Context Edited by Wesley T. Mott Index More information Index Numbers in bold italics indicate a chapter devoted to the topic abolitionism, 171 , 174 , 268 , 288 ; and American Literature (academic journal), 268 . biographers of RWE, 258 , 262 ; critical See also national literature, U. S. rediscovery of RWE’s commitment, American Peace Society, 177 279–80 ; embraced by RWE, 28 , 97 , 119 , American Revolution, 13 , 21 , 76 , 127–28 , 129 , 122 , 133 , 198–99 , 201 , 208–10 ; and moral 133 , 134 law, 198–99 , 201 ; poetry of, 76 , 78–79 , 81 ; American Studies, 271 , 274 , 277 , 281 and Second Great Awakening, 204 , 209 ; Anastas, Benjamin, 289–90 and self-reliance, 121 Angelou, Maya, 78 Abrams, M. H., 103–104 Anthology Society, 180–81 , 182 , 185 Ackroyd, Peter, 25 antislavery. See abolitionism Adams, Hannah, 41 Appleton publishers, 226 Adams, Henry, 6 Arabian Nights, 43 Adams, James Truslow, 269 Arac, Jonathan, 278 Adirondack Club, 186 , 243 Argersinger, Jana, 189 advertising, Emerson used in, 283 , 287–89 aristocracy, 25 , 27 , 37 , 118 , 130–31 , 141 African American poetry, 77 , 78–79 Aristotle, 119 , 166–67 , 168–69 Agassiz, Louis, 185 , 200 , 243 Arnim, Bettina von, 159 Alcott, Abigail, 157–58 Arnold, Matthew, 71 , 267 , 268 Alcott, Amos Bronson, 64 , 174 ; as abolitionist, Arsić, Branka, 50 97 ; and Asian cultures, 41 , 47 ; describes Asia, 36 , 40–48 ; literature and religion RWE, 172 ; and Emerson household, of, 33 , 61 , 96–97 , 173–74 , 280 . 157–58 ; founds the Town and Country See also monism Club, 182 , 183–84 ; and the Radical Club, Asiatic Society of Bengal, 42 185 ; RWE admires, 164 ; on RWE’s decline, Atlantic Monthly , 97 , 141 , 181 , 225 , 284 ; Atlantic 153 ; and the Saturday Club, 181 ; and the Club, 181 Transcendental Club, 182 Austria, 31 , 32 ; Austrian Empire, 131 Alcott, Louisa May, 64 , 210 , 284 Allen, Gay Wilson, 261–62 Bacon, Francis, 70–71 , 111 , 167–69 , 178n2 Allen & Rowell of Boston, 243 Baker, Carlos, 262 America, 12–20 , 60 . See also American culture ; Bancroft, George, 132 United States, cultural/national rise Baptists, 204 American culture, 34 , 208 , 259 , 265 , 268–69 , Barish, Evelyn, 147 288 ; exceptionalism, 271 , 277 ; prospects/ Barker, Anna, 159 , 160 , 164 destiny, 27 , 38–39 . See also American Beats, 47 literary scholarship (academia) ; American Beaudelaire, Charles, 38 Studies ; global culture ; national Beiser, Frederick C., 116 literature, U. S. Bellew, Frank, 173 American literary scholarship (academia), 18 , Bercovitch, Sacvan, 123 , 277–78 260 , 268–72 , 274–81 Bhagavad Gita, 42 , 43 , 45 , 60 , 173 293 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02801-2 - Ralph Waldo Emerson in Context Edited by Wesley T. Mott Index More information 294 Index Bible, 32 , 84–86 , 87 , 94 , 112 , 115 , 137 ; Greek New idealism, 85 ; On Heroes, Hero-Worship, Testament, 61 , 62 and the Heroic in History , 118 , 249 , 253 ; Binford, Henry, 4 publishing contracts in U. S. negotiated by biography, 257–64 , 285–86 RWE, 24 , 164 , 215–16 , 222 , 223–24 ; racist Bishop, Jonathan, 276 views of, 28 ; requests portrait of RWE, 235 ; Black, James Wallace, 240–42 on technology, 143 ; visited by RWE, 24 , 28 , Blake, David Haven, 251 52 , 87 (fi rst meeting depicted in tobacco Blake, William, 23 advertising, 287–88) Bloom, Harold, 12 Casanova, Pascale, 34 Bonner, Robert, 226 Casper, Scott, 225 Bosco, Ronald A., 147–48 , 263 Cavell, Stanley, 50 , 177 , 278–79 Boston, MA, 3–11 , 21 , 23 , 42 , 61 , 118 , 148 , 149 , Cayton, Mary Kupiec, 222 180 , 184 , 248 celebrity culture, 13 , 233–35 . See also fame Boston and Fitchburg railway, 9 Chambers, Robert, 137 , 138–39 , 196 , 197 Boston Association of Booksellers, 223–24 Channing, Edward T., 13 Boston Athenaeum, 63 , 181 , 185 Channing, W. Ellery (poet), 159 , 160 , 166 , 215 , Boston Daily Evening Transcript , 22 , 25 221 , 222 Bowdoin Prize, 171 Channing, William Ellery (Unitarian Bowen, Francis, 266 minister), 22 , 27 , 49 , 84 , 85 , 88 , 92 , 93 , Bowlby, John, 147 94 , 130 , 182 Brady, Mathew, 234–35 , 240 , 246n11 Channing, William Henry, 193 Brahma, 96 Chapman, John Jay, 267–68 Braudy, Leo, 249 Charleston, SC, 149 Britain, 21–30 , 31 , 52 , 87 , 98 , 129 , 132 , 235 , Chartism, 24 , 25 , 37 248 ; and American Revolution, 128 . Chase, Richard, 277 See also England ; Scotland Cheney, Ednah Dow, 175 Brook Farm, 6 , 157 , 164 , 176 Cherokee Removal, 80 , 174 , 175 Brown, John, 124 , 133 Chevigny, Bell Gale, 160 Brown, Lucy Jackson, 159 Child, Lydia Maria, 190–91 Brownson, Orestes, 157 , 182 , 266 China, 42 Bryant, William Cullen, 77 Christian Enquirer , 225 Buddhism, 42 , 45 , 96 , 174 , 178n2 Christian Examiner , 181 , 216 , 223 Buell, Lawrence, 61 , 97 , 123 , 175 , 177 , 278 , 280 Christianity, 33 , 40 , 63 , 94–98 , 109–112 , 174 , 190 . Bulfi nch, Charles, 7 See also Church of England ; Puritanism ; Bulkeley, Rev. Peter, 13 , 21 Roman Catholicism ; Unitarianism Burke, Edmund, 24 , 129–30 Christian Register , 43 Bushyhead, Jesse, 81 Christy, Arthur, 96 Byron, George Gordon, 76 Chronicle of Higher Education , 18 Church of England, 24 , 25–26 , 27 Cabinet of Natural History, Paris, 98 . Cicero, 167 See also Jardin des Plantes Cincinnati, OH, 14 Cabot, James Elliot, 45 , 258 , 286 Civil War, U.S., 35 , 37 , 262 ; British views of, Cadava, Eduardo, 279 28 ; as moral test, 97 ; and progressivist California, 14 , 60 theory, 115 , 116 ; and Romanticism, 76 ; Calvin, John, 110 RWE’s antebellum speeches, 279 ; RWE’s Calvinism, 148 . See also Puritanism support of Union, 133 , 176 , 201 ; as sequel Cameron, Kenneth Walter, 63 to American Revolution, 134 Carey, Mathew, 224 Clarke, James Freeman, 97 , 185 , 223 , 285 Carey & Hart, publishers, 228 class, 279 Carlyle, Th omas, 23 , 33 , 52 , 74n5 , 150 , 191 , Clemens, Samuel, 147 218 ; compared to RWE, 25 , 266 ; critic of Clough, Arthur Hugh, 132 celebrity culture, 249 ; critiqued in RWE’s clubs, 180–87 English Traits , 2 7 ; French Revolution , 130 ; Cold War, 275 , 276–77 friendship with RWE, 24 , 25 , 28 , 168 ; and Cole, Phyllis, 64 , 147–48 , 189 , 191 , 192 , 193 , 262 , German literature, 115 ; house in London, 263 , 279 237 ; infl uence on RWE, 261 ; and Kantian Colebrooke, Henry Th omas, 42 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02801-2 - Ralph Waldo Emerson in Context Edited by Wesley T. Mott Index More information Index 295 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 33 , 40 , 106 , 270 ; Derrida, Jacques, 166 and genius, 69–71 ; and intuition, 23 , 81 , Descartes, René, 102 , 111 , 178n2 265 ; and Kantian idealism, 76 , 77 , 85–86 , Dewey, John, 120 104–105 (and broadly German idealism, Dial, Th e , 44 , 64 , 96 , 164 , 174 , 181 , 184 , 265–66) ; poetry of, 80 ; visited by RWE, 219n8 , 225 24 , 52 , 87 Dickens, Charles, 25 , 27 , 224 Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Dickinson, Emily, 78 , 147 (1971–2013), 263 disease and death, 147–54 Collison, Gary, 18 divinity, 40 , 45 , 92–100 , 105–107 , 205–209 . Concord, MA, 3–11 , 17 , 45 , 127 , 129 , 218 , 286 ; See also God antislavery address by RWE in, 199 ; assets Dolan, Neal, 121 of RWE recorded in, 215 ; history of, 13 , 21 ; domesticity. See home, concept of as iconic tourist destination, 290 ; RWE’s Douglass, Frederick, 79 , 184 , 201 home, Bush, 59 , 157–58 , 161 , 164 , 174 , 191 ; Downs, Annie Sawyer, 284 RWE’s involvement with local committees Dred Scott decision, 201 and friends, 174–75 , 262 ; RWE moves to, 3 , Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 78 5 ; schools, 217 Dunn, John, 118 Concord Free Public Library, 10 , 63 , 235 , Duyckinck, Evert, 227–28 237 , 286 Concord Museum, 63 Eckel, Leslie Elizabeth, 27 Concord School of Philosophy, 171 Edinburgh Review , 44 Confucianism, 40 , 44 , 60 , 96 , 174 Edison, Th omas, 141 Constant, Benjamin, 119 , 120 Edwards, Jonathan, 270 Constitution of the United States of America, Egypt, 28 , 60 127 , 128 Eichhorn, Johann Gottfried, 33 , 115 conversation, 163–69 Eliot, T. S., 270 Conway, Moncure D., 242 , 258 , 259 , 286 Elliott, Ebenezer, 74n5 Cooke, George Willis, 258 , 285–86 Emancipation Proclamation, 122 . Cooke, Rose Terry, 78 , 79–80 , 81 See also Lincoln, Abraham Copernicus, Nicolaus, 111 Emerson, Charles Chauncy (RWE’s brother), 51 , Cousin, Victor, 33 , 43 , 115 , 261 148–51 , 155 , 157 , 164 , 214 Crain, Caleb, 169n6 Emerson, Edith (RWE’s daughter), 173 , 176 , 259 Cranch, Christopher Pearse, 172 , 222 , 243 , 284 Emerson, Edward Bliss (RWE’s brother), 148–51 , Crane, Gregg D., 122 , 279 155 , 157 , 213 , 214 critical reception of Emerson, 248–50 , 259 , Emerson, Edward Waldo (RWE’s son), 149 , 158 , 265–82 175 , 176 , 186 , 210 , 243 , 258 , 259 , 286 Crothers, Samuel McChord, 287 Emerson, Ellen Louisa Tucker (RWE’s fi rst Cuba, 149 wife), 51 , 64 , 86 , 148–51 , 153 , 155 , 158 , Cuvier, Baron Georges, 112 , 137 172–73 , 191 , 214 , 215 Emerson, Ellen Tucker (RWE’s daughter), 28 , Dahl, Robert, 118 153 , 158 , 164 , 176 , 191 , 263 Dall, Caroline Healey, 193 Emerson, John Clarke (RWE’s brother), Dalton, John, 139 148 , 157 Dante Alighieri, 34 , 60 Emerson, Joseph, 213 Darwin, Charles, 98 , 136–38 Emerson, Lidian (Lydia Jackson; RWE’s second Darwin, Erasmus, 137 wife), 28 , 59 , 64 , 150 , 157 , 158–59 , 160–61 , Davis, Paulina Wright, 176 , 193 , 210 173 , 176 , 183 , 191 , 248 , 263 death. See disease and death Emerson, Mary Caroline (RWE’s sister), 149 , 157 democracy, 15–18 , 75 , 81 , 118–26 , 128 , 277 ; Emerson, Mary