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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... reader; or, how, in 1873, when Emerson returned home to Concord from his last trip abroad, the first cable car was used in San Francisco, the first code of rules for football was drafted, Emily Post was born, and Mark Twain and Charles ...
... reader; or, how, in 1873, when Emerson returned home to Concord from his last trip abroad, the first cable car was used in San Francisco, the first code of rules for football was drafted, Emily Post was born, and Mark Twain and Charles ...
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... readers of Emerson tend to think of him as far removed from daily life and concerns; Collison shows him absorbed and involved in the fight for freedom. Armida Gilbert, in "Emerson in the Context of the Woman's Rights Movement," presents ...
... readers of Emerson tend to think of him as far removed from daily life and concerns; Collison shows him absorbed and involved in the fight for freedom. Armida Gilbert, in "Emerson in the Context of the Woman's Rights Movement," presents ...
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... reader to visualize Emerson and his surroundings. The images of Emerson range from those of him as a young man to a picture of him at his writing table a few years before his death. It is important to document and trace the physical ...
... reader to visualize Emerson and his surroundings. The images of Emerson range from those of him as a young man to a picture of him at his writing table a few years before his death. It is important to document and trace the physical ...
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... readers and specialists in American literature. As the bibliographies printed in this volume indicate, Emerson, whose private and public writings alone now approach fifty printed volumes in modern editions, has been the subject of ...
... readers and specialists in American literature. As the bibliographies printed in this volume indicate, Emerson, whose private and public writings alone now approach fifty printed volumes in modern editions, has been the subject of ...
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