Cover -- Contents -- Editor's Note -- Introduction -- Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" -- Method and Scope -- Shakespeare and Melville -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Introduction to Walden and Civil Disobedience -- Whitman's Image of Voice -- The Curse of Kehama -- "The Poet" -- Hawthorne, Melville, and the Fiction of Prophecy -- The Literary Significance of the Unitarian Movement -- Introduction to Leaves of Grass -- Margaret Fuller's Aesthetic Transcendentalism and Its Legacy -- A Mourner Among the Children: Emily Dickinson's Early Religious Crisis -- Chronology -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.