Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Social Aim

Informationen zum Autor Ronald A. Bosco, Distinguished Professor of English and American Literature at the University at Albany, State University of New York, is General Editor of the Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson . Glen M. Johnson is Professor of English, The Catholic University of America. Joel Myerson is Carolina Distinguished Professor of American Literature, Emeritus, at the University of South Carolina. Klappentext Demonstrates the decline in Ralph Waldo Emerson's creative powers after 1865; the strain caused by the preparation of a poetry anthology and delivery of lectures at Harvard during this time; the devastating effect of a house fire in 1872; and! how the Emerson children and Cabot worked together to enable Emerson to complete a book. Zusammenfassung Letters and Social Aims! published in 1875! contains essays originally published early in the 1840s as well as those that were the product of a collaborative effort among Emerson! his daughter Ellen Tucker Emerson! his son Edward Waldo Emerson! and his literary executor James Eliot Cabot.

Product details

• Authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Assisted by: Glen M. Johnson (Editor), Joel Myerson (Editor), Myerson Joel (Editor), Bosco Ronald A. (Introduction)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2010
• EAN: 9780674035607
• ISBN: 978-0-674-03560-7
• No. of pages: 670
• Series: Collected Works of Ralph Waldo; Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson; Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Prose: non-fiction, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Biography and non-fiction prose