| Description |
xviii, 280 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to literature |
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Cambridge companions to literature.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Representing America - the Emerson Legacy / Joel Porte -- 1. Transcendentalism and Its Times / David M. Robinson -- 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson in His Family / Phyllis Cole -- 3. The Radical Emerson? / Robert Milder -- 4. Emerson as Lecturer: Man Thinking, Man Saying / R. Jackson Wilson -- 5. Emerson and Nature / Robert D. Richardson, Jr. -- 6. Essays: First Series (1841) / Albert J. Von Frank -- 7. Transcendental Friendship: Emerson, Fuller, and Thoreau / Jeffrey Steele -- 8. Tears for Emerson: Essays, Second Series / Julie Ellison -- 9. "The Remembering Wine": Emerson's Influence on Whitman and Dickinson / Catherine Tufariello -- 10. Post-Colonial Emerson and the Erasure of Europe / Robert Weisbuch -- 11. "Metre-Making" Arguments: Emerson's Poems / Saundra Morris -- 12. The Conduct of Life: Emerson's Anatomy of Power / Michael Lopez |
| Summary |
The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson is intended to provide a critical introduction to Emerson's work. The tradition of American literature and philosophy as we know it at the end of the twentieth century was largely shaped by Emerson's example and practice. This volume offers students, scholars, and the general reader a collection of fresh interpretations of Emerson's writing, milieu, influence, and cultural significance. All essays are newly commissioned for this volume, written at an accessible yet challenging level, and augmented by a comprehensive chronology and bibliography |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-273) and index |
| Subject |
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Transcendentalism in literature.
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| Author |
Porte, Joel.
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Morris, Saundra, 1956-
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| LC no. |
98036892 |
| ISBN |
0521499461 paperback |
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052149611X hardbound |
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052149611X cased |
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