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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"Chief among the accomplishments of A Historical Guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson is the book's effective relocation of Emerson within the major literary, historical, and cultural contexts of nineteenth-century American life. Edited by Joel Myerson--long the dean of American Transcendentalist literary studies--the book is notable for its clear organization, accessible structure, and useful apparatus.... The book promotes a rich, nuanced view of this important American writer...[and] offers a salutary challenge to the stereotypical image of Emerson as an aloof literary philosopher who existed apart from the circumstances of his age."--Nineteenth-Century Prose
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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.
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New York, Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England, Brief Biography, Fugitive Slave Law, Mary Moody Emerson, Harvard University Press, Margaret Fuller, American Renaissance, Cambridge University Press, Divinity School Address, Joel Myerson, Second Church, Henry Thoreau, Sampson Reed, Lawrence Buell, Len Gougeon, Oxford University Press, United States, University of Chicago Press, Apostle of Culture, Cornell University Press, David Robinson, Emerson's Fall, First Philosophy New!
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New York, Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England, Brief Biography, Fugitive Slave Law, Mary Moody Emerson, Harvard University Press, Margaret Fuller, American Renaissance, Cambridge University Press, Divinity School Address, Joel Myerson, Second Church, Henry Thoreau, Sampson Reed, Lawrence Buell, Len Gougeon, Oxford University Press, United States, University of Chicago Press, Apostle of Culture, Cornell University Press, David Robinson, Emerson's Fall, First Philosophy New!
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- Representative Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson on 13 pages
- English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson on 6 pages
- Paley's Natural Theology by William Paley on 5 pages
- Apostle of Culture: Emerson As Preacher and Lecturer by David Robinson on 5 pages
- Complete Works (Notable American Authors Series) by Ralph Waldo Emerson on 5 pages
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- Emerson's Life in Science: The Culture of Truth by Laura Dassow Walls on 6 pages
- Moments at Anchor Bay High (How Sport Can Provide Clues to the Hidden Mysteries of the Universe) by Ronne R. Gleason on 5 pages
- The Political Emerson: Essential Writings on Politics and Social Reform by Ralph Waldo Emerson on 4 pages
- Emerson, Romanticism, and Intuitive Reason: The Transatlantic "Light of All Our Day" by Patrick J. Keane in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Historical Guide to Nathaniel Hawthorne (Historical Guides to American Authors) by Larry J. Reynolds in Front Matter
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