Introduction / John T. Lysaker and William Rossi
Transcendental contexts. Transcendental friendship : an oxymoron? / Lawrence Buell
Forgiving the giver : Emerson, Carlyle, Thoreau / Barbara Packer
Emerson's "friendship". "In the golden hour of friendship" : transcendentalism and utopian desire / David M. Robinson
Emerson and skepticism : a reading of "friendship" / Russell B. Goodman
On the faces of Emersonian "friendship" / John T. Lysaker
Thoreau's divergent melodies. "In dreams awake" : loss, transcendental friendship, and elegy / William Rossi
"Let him be to me a spirit" : paradoxes of true friendship in Emerson and Thoreau / Alan D. Hodder
Giving friendship for life. Giving friendship : the perichoresis of an all-embracing service / James Crosswhite
Leaving and bequeathing : friendship, moral perfectionism, and the gleam of light / Naoko Saito.
Emerson & Thoreau : figures of friendship. ISBN 9780253221438. Published by Indiana University Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.