Larry J. Reynolds is a University Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University. He is a leading scholar of the American Renaissance and has abundant experience teaching and writing for undergraduate audiences.

• Preface1. Longfellow, Poe, and American Literary Emergence2. Emerson, Thoreau, and Transcendentalism3. Fuller, Fern, and Women’s Rights4. Melville, Hawthorne, and Suffering Humanity 5. Douglass, Stowe, Jacobs, and Anti-Slavery 6. Whitman, Dickinson, and the Civil War.Works Cited

Larry J. Reynolds is a University Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University. He is a leading scholar of the American Renaissance and has abundant experience teaching and writing for undergraduate audiences.

• Preface1. Longfellow, Poe, and American Literary Emergence2. Emerson, Thoreau, and Transcendentalism3. Fuller, Fern, and Women’s Rights4. Melville, Hawthorne, and Suffering Humanity 5. Douglass, Stowe, Jacobs, and Anti-Slavery 6. Whitman, Dickinson, and the Civil War.Works Cited

Larry J. Reynolds is a University Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University. He is a leading scholar of the American Renaissance and has abundant experience teaching and writing for undergraduate audiences.

• Preface1. Longfellow, Poe, and American Literary Emergence2. Emerson, Thoreau, and Transcendentalism3. Fuller, Fern, and Women’s Rights4. Melville, Hawthorne, and Suffering Humanity 5. Douglass, Stowe, Jacobs, and Anti-Slavery 6. Whitman, Dickinson, and the Civil War.Works Cited