* *The Sorrows of Young Werther* by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1774)
* *A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy* by Laurence Sterne (1768)
* *Uncle Tom's Cabin* by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
Individualism
* *Walden* by Henry David Thoreau (1854)
* *Leaves of Grass* by Walt Whitman (1855)
* *The Scarlet Letter* by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
Respect for Nature
* *Nature* by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1836)
* *The American Scholar* by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1837)
* *Thanatopsis* by William Cullen Bryant (1818)