Emerson''s Memory Loss - Originality, Communality, and the Late Style

Emerson's Memory Loss presents an archive of texts documenting Emerson's intellectual, affective, and associative states during his late phase, along with the varying forms of shared connection from which these works emerge.

List of contents

• Introduction




• Chapter 1: Emerson's Memory Loss


• Chapter 2: Knowing by Heart


• Chapter 3: Streams of Thought


• Coda

About the author

Christopher Hanlon is Associate Professor of U.S. Literature at Arizona State University and the author of America's England: Atlantic Sectionalism and Antebellum Literature (Oxford, 2007).

Summary

Emerson's Memory Loss presents an archive of texts documenting Emerson's intellectual, affective, and associative states during his late phase, along with the varying forms of shared connection from which these works emerge.

Additional text

Hanlon's book is beautifully written and its claims are carefully modulated. ... One of the most exciting things about Emerson's Memory Loss is its way of opening for serious examination an area of Emerson's writing that has been deemed more or less off limits: the work gener-ated during the years after the onset of his dementia

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Hanlon, Christopher (Arizona State University) Hanlon
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780190842529
• ISBN: 978-0-19-084252-9
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies