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The seed of the world: Emerson’s transatlantic transcendentalist first philosophy (2023)
Book Chapter
Greenham, D. (in press). The seed of the world: Emerson’s transatlantic transcendentalist first philosophy. In C. Hanlon (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Taking seriously the ‘deep time’ of American literature and the current importance of the Anthropocene, this chapter investigates an often overlooked transatlantic origin for Emerson’s conceptualisation of nature, which I also argue is a crucial mark... Read More about The seed of the world: Emerson’s transatlantic transcendentalist first philosophy.

An Atlantic Adam: Emerson and the origins of United States literature (2016)
Book Chapter
Greenham, D. (2016). An Atlantic Adam: Emerson and the origins of United States literature. In C. Elliott, & L. Eckel (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies (253-265). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Emerson has long been held to be the well-spring of American literary originality. In this chapter I outline Emerson's own ideas of originality, detailing in particular how they relate to his New England context and his reading of model English Renai... Read More about An Atlantic Adam: Emerson and the origins of United States literature.

Corresponding natures: Ralph Waldo Emerson's letters (2016)
Book Chapter
Greenham, D. (2016). Corresponding natures: Ralph Waldo Emerson's letters. In J. Newman, M. Pethers, & C. Marie-Bernier (Eds.), Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing (319-331). Edinburgh UP

This article explores the significance of letter writing in the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson's letters were sent to family members and friends and ranged across his long life. What this chapter addresses is, firstly, the emergence of key Emer... Read More about Corresponding natures: Ralph Waldo Emerson's letters.

Emerson (2011)
Book Chapter
Greenham, D. (2011). Emerson. In P. Rawlings (Ed.), Emerson, Melville, James, Berryman (11-50). Continuum

Nature (2011)
Book Chapter
Greenham, D. (2011). Nature. In W. Mott (Ed.), Ralph Waldo Emerson in Context (84-91). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139235594.014

© Cambridge University Press 2014. To begin to understand what the term nature meant to the intellectual culture of Emerson’s time it is perhaps best to start with William Ellery Channing, a prominent New England Unitarian of the 1820s and 1830s. In... Read More about Nature.