Emerson and Cooper Readings

Susan Fenimore Cooper, Undated photograph

Here is a link to an older essay by Eric Wilson on "Nature," published in the now-defunct Transcendental Quarterly, which I like very much because of its close attention to language, a rarity in Emerson studies.

I am also adding a recent Cooper essay I wrote for a special issue of a journal.  I am currently revising it; any suggestions will be gratefully acknowledged in the printed version.

Here are two diametrically opposed essays:  one, by Stephen Germic, that finds Cooper to be an exponent of ugly nativist tendencies she inherited from her ancestors, and another, by Josh Weinstein, that sees in her a practitioner of Christian humility.