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Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | Ralph Waldo Emerson; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Joel Myerson; Wesley T Mott; Robert E Burkholder |
ISBN: | 1878822721 9781878822727 |
OCLC Number: | 35229240 |
Description: | xi, 284 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Ch. 1. "Build Therefore Your Own World": Emerson's Constructions of the "Intimate Sphere" / Albert J. von Frank -- Ch. 2. Emerson's Fate / Lawrence Buell -- Ch. 3. Emerson's Circle and the Crisis of the Civil War / Len Gougeon -- Ch. 4. Emerson's Politics of Biography and History / Frank Shuffelton -- Ch. 5. The "Somewhat Spheral and Infinite" in Every Man: Emerson's Theory of Biography / Ronald A. Bosco -- Ch. 6. Emerson as Editor / Robert D. Richardson, Jr. -- Ch. 7. Emerson, Friendship, and the Problem of Alcott's "Psyche" / Larry A. Carlson -- Ch. 8. "Men and Women Conversing": The Emersons in 1837 / Phyllis Cole -- Ch. 9. Toward Democratic Vistas: Theodore Parker, Friendship, and Transcendentalism / Gary L. Collison -- Ch. 10. "Valdemar" and the "Frogpondians": The Aftermath of Poe's Boston Lyceum Appearance / Kent P. Ljungquist -- Ch. 11. Thoreau's "Ktaadn" and the Quest for Experience / David M. Robinson -- Ch. 12. Singing Mignon's Song: The Friendship of Ralp Waldo Emerson and Louisa May Alcott / Daniel Shealy -- Ch. 13. "A Liberal Education": Caroline Healy Dall and Emerson / Helen R. Deese -- Ch. 14. The Widening Gyre: Out from Emerson / Philip F. Gura -- Joel Myerson. |
Responsibility: | edited by Wesley T. Mott & Robert E. Burkholder. |
Abstract:
Essays define Emerson's place in American culture, with particular reference to Transcendentalism.
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