Emerson bicentennial essays / edited by Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson.
| Uniform Title: | Massachusetts Historical Society studies in American history and culture ;
no. 10. |
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| Language: | English |
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Boston : Charlottesville :
Massachusetts Historical Society ; Distributed by the University of Virginia Press,
2006.
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| Series: | Massachusetts Historical Society studies in American history and culture ;
no. 10. |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 473 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Holmes, Cabot, and Edward Emerson and the challenges of writing Emerson's biography in the 1880s / Robert D. Habich
- Saving Emerson for posterity / Lawrence Buell
- Emerson and his audiences: the New England lectures, 1843-1844 / Nancy Craig Simmons
- Chladni patterns, Lyceum halls, and skillful experimenters: Emerson's new metaphysics for the listening reader / Sarah Ann Wider
- The new movement's tide: Emerson and women's rights / Phyllis Cole
- Emerson, Garrison, and the anti-slavery society / T. Gregory Garvey
- The legacy of reform: Emersonian idealism, Moorfield Storey, and the civil rights movement / Len Gougeon
- Poverty and power: revisiting Emerson's poetics / Joseph M. Thomas
- (Re)visiting "The Adirondacs": Emerson's confrontation with wild nature / Robert E. Burkholder
- Emerson, Columbus, and the geography of self-reliance: the example of the Sermons / Susan L. Roberson
- Emerson and gnosticism / Albert J. von Frank
- Emerson on language as action / Gustaaf Van Cromphout
- "If body can sing": Emerson and Victorian science / Laura Dassow Walls
- "The power of recurring to the sublime at pleasure": Emerson and feeling / Wesley T. Mott
- Experience, instinct, and Emerson's philosophical reorientation / David M. Robinson
- Later Emerson: "Intellect" and The conduct of life / Robert N. Hudspeth
- History and form in Emerson's "Fate" / Barbara Packer.