Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

A collection of newly commissioned essays provides a critical introduction to pastor and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

List of contents

Introduction: representing America - the Emerson legacy Joel Porte; 1. Transcendentalism and its times David Robinson; 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson in his family Phyllis Cole; 3. The Radical Emerson? Robert Milder; 4. Emerson as lecturer: man thinking, man saying R. Jackson Wilson; 5. Emerson and nature Robert D. Richardson Jr; 6. Essays: first series (1841) Albert J. von Frank; 7. Transcendental friendship Jeffrey Steele; 8. Terms for Emerson: essays, Second Series Julie Ellison; 9. 'The Remembering Wine': Emerson's influence on Whitman and Dickinson Catherine Tufariello; 10. Post-colonial Emerson and the erasure of Europe Robert Weisbuch; 11. Metre-making arguments: Emerson's poems Saundra Morris; 12. The conduct of life: Emerson's anatomy of power Michael Lopez.

Summary

The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a critical introduction to Emerson's work. The tradition of American literature and philosophy as we know it at the end of the twentieth century was largely shaped by Emerson's example and practice.

Product details

• Authors: Joel Porte, Joel (Cornell University Porte, Joel Morris Porte
• Assisted by: Saundra Morris (Editor), Joel Porte (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.04.1999
• EAN: 9780521499460
• ISBN: 978-0-521-49946-0
• No. of pages: 300
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Litera
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies