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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... writer in the context of the vibrant relationship between literature and society, volumes in this series contain historical essays written on subjects of contemporary social, political, and cultural relevance. Each volume also includes ...
... writer in the context of the vibrant relationship between literature and society, volumes in this series contain historical essays written on subjects of contemporary social, political, and cultural relevance. Each volume also includes ...
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... Writers do not create their works in a vacuum. Among Emerson's contemporaries, for example, we can state with certainty that Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter was as much about the author's dismissal from the Salem Custom House ...
... Writers do not create their works in a vacuum. Among Emerson's contemporaries, for example, we can state with certainty that Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter was as much about the author's dismissal from the Salem Custom House ...
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... writer; he suffered family losses but had a successful family life; he was a resident of Concord, Massachusetts, for ... writers of his time, he has had the greatest legacy in the most areas of American life. Emerson's life was lived ...
... writer; he suffered family losses but had a successful family life; he was a resident of Concord, Massachusetts, for ... writers of his time, he has had the greatest legacy in the most areas of American life. Emerson's life was lived ...
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... writer tend to call him—back to reality by showing how concerned Emerson was with this, the great social campaign of the ... writing on this subject during the period, and discusses the reaction of contemporaries to his comments on the ...
... writer tend to call him—back to reality by showing how concerned Emerson was with this, the great social campaign of the ... writing on this subject during the period, and discusses the reaction of contemporaries to his comments on the ...
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... writing table a few years before his death. It is important to document and trace the physical changes in Emerson from a handsome young man to his strong middle age to his quieter later years because most images that are used in ...
... writing table a few years before his death. It is important to document and trace the physical changes in Emerson from a handsome young man to his strong middle age to his quieter later years because most images that are used in ...
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