A Historical Guide to Ralph Waldo EmersonJoel Myerson There is no question that Emerson has maintained his place as one of the seminal figures in American history and literature. In his time, he was the acknowledged leader of the Transcendentalist movement and his poetic legacy, education ideals, and religious concepts are integral to the formation of American intellectual life. In this volume, Joel Myerson, one of the leading experts on this period, has gathered together sparkling new essays that discuss Emerson as a product of his times. Individual chapters provide an extended biographical study of Emerson and his effect on American life, followed by studies of his concept of individualism, nature and natural science, religion, antislavery, and women's rights. |
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... minister, a lecturer, a professional author, an agent for other authors (including Thomas Carlyle, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau), and a traveler through America and Europe; modern studies of all these occupations mention ...
... minister, a lecturer, a professional author, an agent for other authors (including Thomas Carlyle, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau), and a traveler through America and Europe; modern studies of all these occupations mention ...
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... ministry; he was a successful lecturer and writer; he suffered family losses but had a successful family life; he was a resident of Concord, Massachusetts, for nearly fifty years; he traveled a good deal as a lecturer, and made one trip ...
... ministry; he was a successful lecturer and writer; he suffered family losses but had a successful family life; he was a resident of Concord, Massachusetts, for nearly fifty years; he traveled a good deal as a lecturer, and made one trip ...
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... minister, served as pastor of the prestigious Second Church and Society in Boston, and wrote on the subject of religion his whole life. In "Emerson and Antislavery," Gary Collison brings the picture of the "Sage of Concord"—as those who ...
... minister, served as pastor of the prestigious Second Church and Society in Boston, and wrote on the subject of religion his whole life. In "Emerson and Antislavery," Gary Collison brings the picture of the "Sage of Concord"—as those who ...
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... ministers, was pastor of the prestigious First Church. His mother, Ruth Haskins Emerson (1768-1853), whose father was a wealthy distiller in Boston, came from a family that had made its name in the West India trade. Of eight children ...
... ministers, was pastor of the prestigious First Church. His mother, Ruth Haskins Emerson (1768-1853), whose father was a wealthy distiller in Boston, came from a family that had made its name in the West India trade. Of eight children ...
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