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The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

English · Paperback / Softback

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Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, ¿was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own.¿ His celebrated essays are here presented for the first time in an authoritative one-volume edition, which incorporates all the changes and corrections Emerson made after their initial publication.

About the author

Alfred R. Ferguson (1915–1974) was Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston.Jean Ferguson Carr is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, where she writes and teaches in composition, women’s studies, history of the book, literacy, and literary studies, focusing on nineteenth-century American constructions of literacy and letters.Alfred Kazin (1915–1998) was Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus, at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and author and editor of many books, including A Writer’s America: Landscape in American Literature.

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Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, “was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own.” His celebrated essays are here presented for the first time in an authoritative one-volume edition, which incorporates all the changes and corrections Emerson made after their initial publication.

Product details

Authors Ralph Waldo Emerson
Assisted by Jean Ferguson Carr (Editor), Carr Jean Ferguson (Editor), Alfred R Ferguson (Editor), Alfred R. Ferguson (Editor), Ferguson Alfred R. (Editor), Kazin Alfred (Introduction)
Publisher University Presses
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 02.04.1987
 
EAN 9780674267206
ISBN 978-0-674-26720-6
Dimensions 156 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
Weight 454 g
Series The Belknap Press
Belknap Press
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literary essays

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