Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1847–1848: Volume X

Emerson's journals of 1847-1848 deal primarily with his second visit to Europe, occasioned by a British lecture tour that began at Manchester and Liverpool in November of 1847, took him to Scotland in the following February, and concluded in London during June after he had spent a month as a sightseer in Paris. The journals of these years, alogn with associated notebooks and letters, recorded the materials for lectures that Emerson composed while abroad, for additional lectures on England and the English that he wrote shortly after his return to Concord, and ultimately, for

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Merton M. Sealts, Jr., was Professor of English at Lawrence University from 1948–1965 and at the University of Wisconsin from 1965 until his death.

Summary

Emerson’s journals of 1847–1848 deal primarily with his second visit to Europe, occasioned by a British lecture tour. The journals, notebooks, and letters of these years recorded materials for lectures that Emerson composed abroad and shortly after his return to Concord, and ultimately for English Traits, which he was to publish in 1856.

Product details

• Authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Assisted by: Merton M. Sealts (Editor), Sealts Merton M. (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1973
• EAN: 9780674484733
• ISBN: 978-0-674-48473-3
• Weight: 1061 g
• Illustrations: 4 halftones
• Series: Journals & Miscellaneous Noteb; Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Literature & literary studies, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Lectures