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9780195120943

A Historical Guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195120943

  • ISBN10:

    0195120949

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-01-13
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

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.

Author Biography


Joel Myerson is Carolina Distinguished Professor of American Literature at the University of Southern Carolina. He edited Studies in the American Renaissance (1977-1996) and is former president of the Association for Documentary Editing, the Thoreau Society, and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society. He was published numerous books on Emerson and his times.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations ix
Introduction
3(6)
Joel Myerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882: A Brief Biography
9(52)
Ronald A. Bosco
EMERSON IN HIS TIME
``The Age of the First Person Singular'': Emerson and Individualism
61(40)
Wesley T. Mott
Emerson, Nature, and Natural Science
101(50)
William Rossi
Emerson and Religion
151(28)
David M. Robinson
Emerson and Antislavery
179(32)
Gary Collison
Emerson in the Context of the Woman's Rights Movement
211(40)
Armida Gilbert
Illustrated Chronology
251(18)
We Find What We Seek: Emerson and His Biographers
269(22)
Ronald A. Bosco
Bibliographical Essay 291(20)
Joel Myerson
Contributors 311(2)
Index 313

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