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My new edition of Emerson's Conduct, modernizes the prose spelling, annotates the text and adds a short chronology, a bibliography foused on Emerson's sources, a new Introduction, and a comprehensive index. Available in HB and PB.

This is Emerson's classic statement of intellectual and moral independence.

Edited by Len Gougeon and Joel Myerson, this book presents the first comprehensive and authoritative collection of Emerson’s writings against slavery and the subjugation of American Indians—writings that reveal Emerson’s deep commitment to social reform. Included are speeches and lectures that have never before been published or collected in any other edition of Emerson’s writings.

Summing up, Society and Solitude needs re-reading, and the newly published edition, beautifully edited by H. G. Callaway, and provided with notes, philosophical commentaries, historical contextualization, indexes, bibliography, and Introduction—will serve the reader well with a better understanding of the original text and help us to apply Emerson’s ideas with reference to philosophical and Pragmatic considerations.

This paper is the expository and evaluative introduction to my new edition of Emerson's Society and Solitude, Twelve Chapters.

This is Emerson's book of essays, published in 1870, following the American Civil War.

Howard Callaway's new edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Society and Solitude is an invaluable contribution to both the primary and secondary literature on Emerson. Its contribution to the primary sources is its use of the original 1870 edition of Emerson's text, though with modernized spellings to facilitate the reader's understanding. Its contribution to the secondary literature consists in the scholarly apparatus of page-by-page annotations, an introduction, a chronology, a bibliography, and an index. Callaway's Society and Solitude is a worthy companion to his earlier edition of Emerson's The Conduct of Life.