Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854–1861: Volume XIV

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About the author

Susan Sutton Smith is Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York College at Oneonta.Harrison Hayford is Professor of English at Northwestern University.

Summary

These journals show the ripeness of Emerson’s thought overshadowed by the grave problem of slavery. In addition to completing English Traits (1856) and Conduct of Life (1860), Emerson wrote many of the pieces that made up Society and Solitude. He also contributed often to The Atlantic Monthly after helping to found that magazine in 1857.

Product details

• Authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Assisted by: Harrison Hayford (Editor), Hayford Harrison (Editor), J. E. Parsons (Editor), Susan Sutton Smith (Editor), Susan Sutton Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.1978
• EAN: 9780674484771
• ISBN: 978-0-674-48477-1
• Weight: 939 g
• Illustrations: 6 halftones
• Series: Journals & Miscellaneous Noteb; 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, Emerson, Biography, Literature and Literary studies