Emersonian circles : essays in honor of Joel Myerson
Emersonian Circles pays tribute to an essential tradition of literary scholarship and to the figure who has perhaps done more than anyone to sustain its vitality over the past generation. Bibliographer, editor and interpreter of the American Renaissance, Joel Myerson has devoted his academic career to recovering the literary legacy of the Transcendentalists and reconstructing the biographical and historical contexts in which they lived and wrote. This valuable collection gathers together original essays by fourteen scholars who share Joel Myerson's commitment to historically grounded investigations of American literature. Centered on Emerson and his circle, the pieces connect Transcendentalist thought to diverse contexts in antebellum America: family and gender relations, personal and professional friendships, the politics of antislavery, the transatlantic dialogue of American and British intellectuals
Print Book, English, 1997
University of Rochester Press, Rochester, N.Y., 1997
Aufsatzsammlung
xi, 284 pages ; 24 cm
9781878822727, 1878822721
35229240
"Build therefore your own world" - Emerson's constructions of the "intimate sphere", Albert J. von Frank; Emerson's fate, Lawrence Buell; Emerson's circle and the crisis of the Civil War, Len Gougeon; Emerson's politics of biography and history, Frank Shuffelton; the "somewhat spheral and infinite" in every man - Emerson's theory of biography, Ronald A. Bosco; Emerson as editor, Robert D. Richardson Jr; Emerson, friendship, and the problem of Alcott's "Psyche", Larry A. Carlson; "men and women conversing" - the Emersons in 1837, Phyllis Cole; toward democratic vistas - Theodore Parker, friendship and transcendentalism, Gary Collison; "Valdemar" and the "frogpondians" - the aftermath of Poe's Boston Lyceum appearance, Kent P. Ljungquist; Thoreau's "Ktaadn" and the quest for experience, David M. Robinson; singing Mignon's song - the friendship of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Louisa May Alcott, Daniel Shealy; "a liberal education" - Caroline Healey Dall and Emerson, Helen R. Deese; the widening gyre - out from Emerson, Philip F. Gura.