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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... First Person Singular”: 61 Emerson and Individualism Wesley T. Mott Emerson, Nature, and Natural Science Ion William Rossi Emerson and Religion 151 David M. Robinson Emerson and Antislavery 179 Gary Collison Emerson in the Context Contents.
... First Person Singular”: 61 Emerson and Individualism Wesley T. Mott Emerson, Nature, and Natural Science Ion William Rossi Emerson and Religion 151 David M. Robinson Emerson and Antislavery 179 Gary Collison Emerson in the Context Contents.
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... religion, antislavery, and women's rights. A Historical Guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson contains chronologies of both Emerson's own life and the major political, social, and literary events of his age. Here we can observe many interesting ...
... religion, antislavery, and women's rights. A Historical Guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson contains chronologies of both Emerson's own life and the major political, social, and literary events of his age. Here we can observe many interesting ...
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... Religion," reminds us that, just as Transcendentalism was first and foremost a religious movement, so, too, can Emerson's own beginnings be found within a religious context. He was, after all, a student at Harvard Divinity School and ...
... Religion," reminds us that, just as Transcendentalism was first and foremost a religious movement, so, too, can Emerson's own beginnings be found within a religious context. He was, after all, a student at Harvard Divinity School and ...
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... Religion," "Unitarianism," "Transcendentalism," "Concord, Massachusetts," "Philosophy," "Literary History," and "Books on Ralph Waldo Emerson." Illustrations will help the reader to visualize Emerson and his surroundings. The images of ...
... Religion," "Unitarianism," "Transcendentalism," "Concord, Massachusetts," "Philosophy," "Literary History," and "Books on Ralph Waldo Emerson." Illustrations will help the reader to visualize Emerson and his surroundings. The images of ...
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... religious and philosophical controversy, political and social event, and scientific discovery that came to his attention between the 1820s and the late 1870s, and who nearly filled four notebooks with the titles of books he considered ...
... religious and philosophical controversy, political and social event, and scientific discovery that came to his attention between the 1820s and the late 1870s, and who nearly filled four notebooks with the titles of books he considered ...
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