Adams, John 7-8, 35, 46, 237, 261
Alcott, Amos Bronson xvii, xx, 18, 40, 58, 72, 98, 105, 123, 125, 132, 134, 139-140, 144, 158, 160, 273, 290, 376, 381
Alcott, Louisa May xxii, 170, 260
American Revolution 8, 11, 376
antislavery movement xvi, 41, 105, 167, 229, 252, 274
women’s role in 170-171, 174, 204, 207-208, 259
atheism 52, 175, 212, 220, 239, 246
Atlantic Monthly 160, 193, 200, 248, 281, 300, 302
Bergson, Henri 358
Bhagavad Gita 291, 375, 379, 385, 392, 395
Bible 10, 32, 40, 43, 53, 95, 117, 289, 330
Bonaparte, Napoléon 17, 52, 328
Borges, Jorge Luis 333
Boston Daily Advertiser 180
Brooks, Mary Merrick 171
Brooks, Preston S. 183
Browning, Robert 227
Burke, Edmund 74
“Bush”, Concord House, named by Emerson xviii, 75, 123, 132-133, 135, 163, 227, 309, 399
Byron, George Gordon (Lord) 34, 36, 355
Calvinism 12, 27, 34, 95, 295, 314
Carlyle, Thomas 50, 68, 86, 111, 120, 147, 193, 212, 224, 227, 287, 290, 315, 337, 359, 370, 394
Castro, Fidel 336
Cavell, Stanley xix
Chambers, Robert 210
Channing, Edward Tyrell 32
Channing, Ellery 143
Channing, William Ellery 27, 32, 41, 45, 95, 119, 126, 143, 261, 390
Chapman, Maria 170
Civil War xvii, 164, 169, 189, 213, 251, 258
Clarke, James Freeman 139, 243, 248
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 49, 61, 68, 86, 243, 287, 332, 336
Compromise of 1850 115, 167, 176, 184, 232, 240, 277
Concord Female Anti-Slavery Society xvi, 107, 171, 204. See also antislavery movement, women’s role in
Concord, Mass. xviii, xxi, 20, 75, 87, 126, 129, 133, 139, 263, 290, 304, 306, 309, 376, 386, 390, 404
abolitionist movement, and xvi, 107, 171, 177-178, 184, 187, 204, 209, 231-232, 259, 274, 277, 284, 339, 392
addresses by Emerson, delivered in 75, 107, 173, 178, 184, 231, 254, 259, 277, 284, 339
ancestral Emerson home 11, 21, 72, 75, 87
move to in 1834 xix, 72, 87, 123, 163
personified by Emerson as “Sage of Concord” xviii, 304
posthumous tributes to Emerson in 257, 307, 310
the Revolution, and 11, 254, 284
Confucianism 55, 99, 376, 380, 399
Constitution of the United States xxi, 4, 167-168, 177, 180, 188, 190, 193, 197, 203, 214, 247, 276, 281, 283
provision for slavery in xx, 167
Cranch, Christopher Pearse 83, 97, 98, 143
Dall, Charles H. A. 389
D’Annunzio, Gabriele 326, 362. See also Ralph Waldo Emerson: misinterpretation of his ideas
Dante (Durante degli Alighieri) 330
Darwin, Charles 238
Davis, Paulina Wright 204, 206, 208
Declaration of Independence xxi, 40, 92, 188, 192, 197, 201, 214, 282
Dewey, John 322
Dial, The xx, 97-99, 106, 129, 133-135, 154-155, 230, 262, 339-340, 381, 413-414, 428
Dickens, Charles 111
Dickinson, Emily xxi, 152, 154, 267, 292, 358
Dickinson, Susan Huntington Gilbert 300
Dickinson, William Austin 152, 297, 300
Douglass, Frederick xvii, 170-171, 174, 198, 231, 284
Dred Scott v. Sandford 185, 212
Du Bois, W. E. B. 322
Eliot, George 111, 326, 340, 359
Ellison, Ralph Waldo 322
Emerson, Charles Chauncy 9, 22, 43, 60-61, 72, 75, 125, 139
Emerson, Edith 132-133, 209, 221, 226, 291
Emerson, Edward Bliss (RWE’s brother) 9, 17, 19-20, 22, 43, 47, 59, 72, 179, 221
Emerson, Edward Waldo (RWE’s second son) 22, 133, 220, 306, 309
Emerson, Ellen Louisa Tucker (RWE’s first wife) xix, 54, 59-60, 72, 81, 102, 120, 141-142, 144, 148, 209, 221
Emerson, Ellen Tucker (RWE’s first daughter) 133, 152, 227
Emerson, Lidian (Lydia Jackson) xvi, xx, 34, 74, 76-77, 107, 133, 133-136, 138, 140-141, 144, 147, 171, 204, 209, 224, 226, 230, 241, 254, 259, 261, 290, 292
Emerson, Mary Moody xix, 11, 16, 20, 22, 31-32, 38, 42, 44, 48, 50, 55, 61, 85, 118, 125, 129, 142, 204, 261, 267, 377. See also Ralph Waldo Emerson: influence of Mary Moody Emerson
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
ambiguous attitude towards blacks and women xiv, xv, xvi, 49, 111, 156, 206, 210, 219, 229, 258
as academic at Harvard 224
as lecturer 70, 104, 151, 158, 201, 222, 271, 286
childhood xix, 6, 27, 43, 48, 72, 117, 214
conservatism of his revolution xxi
criticism of xv, 96, 180, 190, 206, 210, 366
Eastern religion, interest in 36, 234, 376
education at Boston Public Latin School 16, 43
education at Harvard xix, 23, 42-43, 46, 377, 399
fame 70, 92, 99, 108, 137, 227, 254, 257, 373
female role models xv, 11, 18, 139, 203, 260
feminine sensibility 18, 148, 157, 161, 203, 258, 304
health problems 47, 51, 61-62, 219, 221
his cultural revolution xxi, 97, 99, 119, 172, 347
idealism, shift toward pragmatic idealism xx, 85, 113, 117, 129, 181, 235, 248, 313, 328, 349. See also spirituality and Transcendentalism
influence of Mary Moody Emerson 11, 22, 32, 48, 50. See also Emerson, Mary Moody
journals 3, 6, 18, 28, 35, 42, 59, 61, 99, 134, 144, 206, 227, 229, 252, 258, 271, 273, 282, 387
later years 266
marriage to Ellen xix, 54, 59, 72, 141-142, 148. See also Emerson, Ellen Louisa Tucker
marriage to Lidian 74, 144. See also Emerson, Lidian
misinterpretation of his ideas in Germany and Italy xv, xxi, 210, 326, 336, 345, 362
nature, love of 34, 57, 65, 69, 72, 74, 83, 290
posthumous reputation and influence 257, 305, 312, 320, 405
private life and public career, enmeshing of xiv, xvii, 81, 104, 125, 154, 164, 177, 214, 219, 229, 238, 244, 246, 260, 273, 279, 313
psyche, paradox of xiii, 18, 148, 157, 161, 203, 258, 304
race, theories of xvii, 49, 111, 175, 210, 229, 238
racism, accusations of xv, xx, 210
Romantic xix, xx, 35, 47, 49, 51, 69, 86, 154, 161, 234, 313, 331, 377
science, attitudes towards xix, 21, 56, 65, 69, 81, 100, 112, 210, 233, 237, 240, 252, 309, 316, 328, 331
self, “hidden” xiii, xvii, xx, 28, 100, 148, 161, 260, 273
self-reliance xiv, 10, 48, 53, 55, 100, 108, 119, 150, 174, 181, 199, 220, 229-231, 243, 259, 280, 288, 312, 316, 338, 344, 348, 361, 388, 392, 395
sexuality 19, 28, 134, 148, 157, 161, 289
slavery, opposition to xvi, 34, 48, 59, 105, 167, 211, 229, 252, 274
spirituality 10, 12, 43, 53, 69, 81, 248, 390. See also idealism, shift toward pragmatic idealism
travels in US xviii, xxi, 51, 108, 222, 226, 286
travels to Europe xviii, xxi, 62, 108
women’s movement, role in 154, 203, 258
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, works
“American Scholar, The” x, 91-93, 273, 338, 341, 348
“Brahma” 300, 334, 370-371, 388, 418
“Character” 234-235, 244, 248, 256, 260, 303, 353, 358
“Emancipation Proclamation, The” 195, 284
“Experience” 103-104, 113, 231, 232, 240, 267, 368
“Fate” xx, 158-159, 233-236, 238-239, 244, 247-248, 267, 342, 347, 350
“Fortune of the Republic, The” 201, 213, 332
“Friendship” 100-101, 118, 129, 135, 149-152, 158, 164, 273, 332, 363
“Lectures on the Times, 1841-1842” 97
“Love” 117-118, 129, 148-151, 155, 164, 273, 353
“Mind and Manners of the Nineteenth Century” 112
“Nature” 325
“Poet, The” 267, 285, 287, 297, 302, 330, 333, 344, 348, 352-354
“Progress of Culture” 209, 213
“Sabbath, The” 19
“Self-Reliance” 53, 100, 309, 322, 344-345, 352, 355, 363, 368-369, 396
“Terminus” xxi, 220, 266-268, 419
“Transcendentalist, The” 98
“Voluntaries” 200
“Woman” 106, 154-155, 204, 206-208, 210, 230, 261, 264, 299, 363, 417, 432
“Worship” xx, 158, 233-236, 239-241, 243-245, 248-249, 252, 255, 267, 313, 361
Conduct of Life, The xx, 34, 233, 255, 297, 342, 346, 352, 357
English Traits 111, 210, 239, 341, 342, 357
Essays I 99, 118, 129, 158, 273, 296, 313, 339-340, 346, 353
Essays II 106, 158, 234, 274, 287, 296, 340, 346
Historical Discourse, A 75
May-Day and Other Pieces 221, 371
Nature xx, 34, 57, 73, 82, 104, 113, 127, 130, 139, 158, 232, 236, 243, 267, 273, 283, 309, 317, 335, 338, 340, 355, 366
Representative Men 129, 158, 198, 280, 297, 326, 335, 342, 348, 357, 360, 386-387
Society and Solitude 221, 263, 321, 341-342, 387
Emerson, Robert Bulkeley 9, 47
Emerson, Ruth Haskins xv, 6, 13, 37, 72, 118, 142, 147, 204
Emerson, Waldo xx, 90, 133, 232, 305
Emerson, William (RWE’s brother) 9-10, 13-14, 18-19, 22-23, 25-26, 33, 43, 46, 59, 72, 135, 330
Emerson, William (RWE’s father) 6, 26, 44, 118, 119, 376
Emerson, William (RWE’s grandfather) 21, 44, 72
Faraday, Michael 113
Fascist Party (Italy) 362
Franklin, Benjamin 35, 261, 371, 376
Free Religious Association (FRA) 248, 254, 257-258, 260
Frisbie, Levi 31
Fugitive Slave Law 115, 167-168, 176, 232, 235, 240, 277, 282, 287
Fuller, Margaret xvii, xx, 97, 105, 111, 119, 123, 125, 127-128, 134, 139, 160, 178, 205-206, 230, 259, 261, 273, 287, 340-341, 355, 381
Woman in the Nineteenth Century 98, 156, 178, 205
Furness, William Henry 9, 17, 19, 32
Gandhi, Mohandas (Mahatma) xxi, 373, 393
Garrison, William Lloyd 41, 59, 169, 171, 184, 231, 258, 275, 295, 369
Gladstone, William 227
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 50, 69, 98, 145, 148, 203, 237, 259-260, 287, 315, 328, 355, 368
Greenough, Horatio 316
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 11, 125, 136, 261
Hazard, Caroline 264
Hedge, Frederic Henry 123, 139
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 331, 355, 365
Herder, Johann Gottfried 331, 355
Herndon, William H. 274
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth 206, 248, 302
Hinduism 34, 36, 55, 99, 374, 385, 399
Hitler, Adolf xxi, 326, 351, 366. See also Nazism and Ralph Waldo Emerson: misinterpretation of his ideas
Hoar, Elizabeth 75, 125, 136, 144, 157, 230
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. 307
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. 92, 160, 179, 284, 307, 363
Howe, Julia Ward 210, 249, 251, 257, 264
Jackson, Andrew 40
James, Henry, Sr. 148, 260, 305, 310
James, William xxi, 305, 322, 358, 365
Jardin des Plantes (also Jardin du Roi), Paris xviii, 65, 81, 104
Jefferson, Thomas 4, 8, 14, 39, 46, 223
Johnson, Samuel 378
Kanda, Naibu 400
Kant, Immanuel 50, 245, 287, 332, 365
Keats, John 73
Kitamura Tokoku 401
Knox, Robert 210
Landor, Walter Savage 332, 336
Lee, Robert E. 187, 253, 282, 284
Liberator, The 41, 169-170, 174, 177, 190, 275
Lincoln, Abraham xxi, 189, 253, 274
Lloyd-Jones, Anna 314
Lothrop, Samuel 25
Louisiana Purchase 4, 169, 181
L’Ouverture, Toussaint 174, 231
Lowell, James Russell 271, 287, 306, 369
Luther, Martin 74
Maeterlinck, Maurice 352
Majumdar, Protap Chandra 390
Martineau, Harriet 155, 204, 338, 341
Massachusetts Historical Society 7, 224
Mazzini, Giuseppe 111
Mickiewicz, Adam 354
Mill, John Stuart 227, 278, 337
Missouri Compromise xix, 39, 48, 169, 176, 181
Monroe Doctrine 39
Montaigne, Michel de 36, 142, 328
Monthly Anthology 7, 9, 12, 26
Morrison, Toni 322
Mott, Lucretia 170-171, 204, 260
Müller, Friedrich Max 227, 380
Murat, Achille 330
Musil, Robert 352
Mussolini, Benito xxi, 326, 351, 362. See also Fascist Party (Italy) and Ralph Waldo Emerson: misinterpretation of his ideas
National Anti-Slavery Standard 159, 275
nature, aesthetic and spiritual power of xviii, 34, 57, 65, 69, 82. See also Ralph Waldo Emerson: nature, love of and Ralph Waldo Emerson, works: Nature
Nazism xxi, 326, 334, 346, 350-351, 362
Nehru, Jawaharlal 398
Newcomb, Charles 143
New England Anti-Slavery Society 41, 170
New-York Tribune 156, 178, 277, 287, 291, 341
Nietzsche, Friedrich 326, 334, 345, 358, 362, 364, 367. See also Ralph Waldo Emerson: misinterpretation of his ideas
Norton, Charles Eliot 35, 159, 261, 342, 370-371
Obama, Barack 322
O’Keeffe, Georgia 322
Ossoli, Giovanni Angelo 178
Paley, William 57
Palfrey, John Gorham 93, 168, 180
Pascal, Blaise 242
Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer 72, 119, 125-127, 264
Phillips, Wendell 170-171, 184, 190, 206, 231, 275, 300
Plato 34, 36, 129, 142, 206, 328, 342, 347, 386
Platonic idealism 85, 129, 313, 328
Poe, Edgar Allan 286, 333, 357-358, 371
Pope, Alexander 36
Potter, William James 248
Powys, John Cowper 345
Prescott, George L. 255
Priestley, Joseph 376
proto-feminism 11, 98, 154, 203, 258. See also women’s rights movement
Proust, Marcel 359
Quakerism 41, 55, 60, 74, 154, 260, 286
racism xx, 111, 174, 192, 198, 210, 212, 307
Radice, Giuseppe Lombardo 366
Reed, Sampson 50
Rilke, Rainer Maria 353
Ripley, Sarah Alden Bradford 17-18, 37, 125, 230
Rollin, Charles 17
Romanticism xix, 13, 24, 35, 40, 49, 55, 86, 161, 234, 313, 330-331, 355, 374, 377, 401
Ruskin, John 227, 315-316, 394
Schiller, Friedrich 50
Schlegel, Karl Wilhelm Friedrich 287
Scott, Walter 36
Shakespeare, William 17, 36, 279, 289, 297, 315, 328, 368
Shaw, Lemuel 178
Simpson, Louis 211
slave power 168, 173-174, 181, 194, 232, 277
Snow, C. P. 242
Springfield Republican 152, 297
Staël, Germaine de (Madame) 24, 33, 50, 332
Stearns, George Luther 254
Stewart, Dugald 31
Stowe, Harriet Beecher 209, 284
Sturgis, Caroline 98, 143, 150
suffrage 195, 202-203, 207, 209, 212, 253, 264
Sumner, Charles 183, 194, 203, 231, 256, 275, 279
Swedenborg, Emanuel 51, 57, 305, 328
Tennyson, Alfred Lord 111
Thompson, George 171
Thoreau, Henry David xvii, xx, xxii, 98, 125, 129-130, 139-140, 143, 177, 204, 273, 290, 359, 369, 376, 381, 396
Ticknor, George 31
Tocqueville, Alexis de 288, 411-413
Tolstoy, Leo 320, 360, 368, 394
Tozzi, Federigo 366
Transcendental Club xx, 90, 123, 134, 140, 154, 160, 230, 250
Transcendentalism xx, 39, 85-87, 118, 143, 171, 175, 180, 197, 203, 219, 234, 250, 262, 274, 279, 283, 287, 313, 330-331, 344, 381-382, 386, 399, 404. See also Ralph Waldo Emerson: idealism
American Transcendentalism and Emerson’s role in xiii, xiv, xxi, 87, 123, 134, 143, 154, 404
European roots of 105, 287, 330
pragmatism’s origins in xx, 312
Truth, Sojourner 170
Unitarianism 7, 27, 40, 44, 51, 68, 90, 93, 123, 235, 246, 248, 331, 348, 379, 389
Vattimo, Gianni 367
Vivekananda, Swami 374, 391, 404-405
Ward, Samuel Gray 143, 160, 249, 262
Ware, Henry, Jr. 93
Ware, Henry, Sr. 26, 38, 44, 95
War of 1812 21
Washington, George xxii, 8, 35, 261, 358
Webster, Daniel 46, 115, 119, 138, 167, 179, 183, 240, 256, 259, 288
West Indian Emancipation 107, 174, 205, 231, 282
Whitman, Walt xxi, 105, 226, 267, 285, 305, 333, 343, 365
Wilde, Oscar 343
women’s rights movement xiii, 98, 106, 154, 173, 203, 220, 258. See also proto-feminism and Ralph Waldo Emerson: women’s rights movement, involvement in
Woolf, Virginia 342
Wordsworth, William 24, 34, 49, 69, 86, 331, 336, 341
Yogananda, Paramahansa 393
Young, Edward 240