Virtue's Hero - Emerson, Antislavery, and Reform

Informationen zum Autor Len Gougeon is a professor of American literature and Distinguished University Fellow at the University of Scranton. He is coeditor of "Emerson's Antislavery Writings" and author of "Emerson & Eros: The Making of a Cultural Hero." In 2008 he received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society. Klappentext Scholars have long debated the question of Ralph Waldo Emerson's relationship to the abolition movement and the degree of his commitment to the antislavery cause. Drawing on an array of primary documents! this title offers a comprehensive account of Emerson's antislavery position.

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• Authors: Len Gougeon
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2010
• EAN: 9780820334691
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3469-1
• No. of pages: 424
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Anthologien (nicht Lyrik), LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century