The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism offers an ecclectic, comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to the immense cultural impact of the movement that encompassed literature, art, architecture, science, and politics.

Introduction1. Transcendental Contexts1. Transcendentalism and Greek and Roman ClassicsK. P. Van Anglen2. Enlightenment and Scottish Common Sense PhilosophyRobin Grey3. Asian InfluencesAlan Hodder4. Puritanism and TranscendentalismFrank Shuffelton5. UnitarianismDean Grodzins6. Transcendentalism and World RevolutionsMichael Ziser7. British and Continental RomanticismBarbara L. Packer8. Nineteenth-Century Print CultureRonald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray2. Transcendentalism as a Social Movement9. Transcendentalism and ReligionAlbert J. Von Frank10. Transcendental Politics and EconomicsLen Gougeon11. EducationWesley T. Mott12. Environmentalist Thought and ActionLance Newman13. Transcendentalism, Manifest Destiny, and the Question of the Moral AbsoluteLawrence Buell14. Transcendentalism and Native American RightsJoshua David Bellin15. Transcendentalism and AntislaverySandra Harbert Petrulionis16. Women's Rights and FeminismPhyllis Cole17. Transcendentalism, Health, and the BodyMary Lamb Shelden18. Transcendentalist CommunitiesSterling F. Delano3. Transcendentalism as a Literary Movement19. Transcendental Poetics: Emerson, Higginson, and the Rise of Whitman and DickinsonEd Folsom20. Transcendentalism and the JournalRobert Sattelmeyer21. Transcendental Letter-writingRobert N. Hudspeth22. Transcendentalism and SermonsSusan L. Roberson23. Lectures and the Lyceum MovementKent P. Ljungquist24. Transcendentalism and ConversationsNoelle A. Baker25. Transcendentalist PeriodicalsTodd H. Richardson26. The DialSusan Belasco27. Literary CriticismJeffrey Steele28. Transcendentalist Travel LiteratureBarbara L. Packer29. Nature WritingPhilip F. Gura30. Biography, Autobiography, and ReminiscenceRobert D. Habich4. Transcendentalism and the Other Arts31. Transcendentalism and the Visual ArtsAlbert J. Von Frank32. PhotographySean Ross Meehan33. ArchitectureW. Barksdale Maynard34. Transcendentalism and MusicOra Frishberg Saloman5. Varieties of Transcendental Experience35. ConcordRonald A. Bosco36. Transcendentalism in Boston and BeyondRobert J. Scholnick37. Global TranscendentalismLaura Dassow Walls38. Families and Friendships at the Height of the Transcendental MovementElizabeth Addison39. Transcendental VirtuePhilip Cafaro40. The Cavellian Turn in American Transcendental ThinkingLawrence F. Rhu41. Transcendental AestheticsEric G. Wilson42. Science and TechnologyLaura Dassow Walls43. Transcendentalism and Evolutionary TheoryWilliam Rossi44. Transcendentalism and Its Nay-Sayers: Poe, Hawthorne, MelvilleRichard Kopley6. Transcendental Afterlives45. The Free Religion MovementDavid M. Robinson46. The Life and Legacy of ?Civil Disobedience?Linck Johnson47. Nature Writing and Environmental ActivismRobert E. Burkholder48. Walden: Pilgrimages and IconographiesLeslie Perrin Wilson49. Transcendentalism and Twentieth-Century American PoetrySaundra Morris50. The Electronic AgeAmy E. EarhartAppendicesChronologyJoel MyersonBibliographiesJoel MyersonIndex