Prose and Poetry

Informationen zum Autor Saundra Morris is Associate Professor of English and Senior Fellow, Social Justice College at Bucknell University, where she has taught since 1995. She is a Stanley J. Karhl Fellow of Literary Manuscripts at Houghton Library, Harvard University. Joel Porte is Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1987. He is the author of In Respect to Egotism: Studies in American Romantic Writing ; Representative Man: Ralph Waldo Emerson in His Time ; and The Romance of America: Studies in Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and James . He is editor, with Saundra Morris, of The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson . Klappentext The selections include Emerson's major sermons, lectures, essays, addresses, and poems, as well as excerpts from his journals, notebooks, and correspondence. "Contexts" addresses the topics of American Transcendentalism, philosophy, and Emerson's contemporary reception. "Criticism" includes thirteen twentieth-century essays by O. W. Firkins, Stephen E. Whicher, Perry Miller, Joel Porte, Hyatt H. Waggoner, Julie Ellison, Michael T. Gilmore, Barbara Packer, Stanley Cavell, Cornel West, Len Gougeon, Richard Poirier, and Saundra Morris. A Chronology, Selected Bibliography, and Index are included.

Product details

• Authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Assisted by: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Editor), Saundra Morris (Editor), Joel Porte (Editor)
• Publisher: Norton W W Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.07.2001
• EAN: 9780393967920
• ISBN: 978-0-393-96792-0
• Dimensions: 143 mm x 235 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Norton Critical Editions; Norton Critical Editions
• Subjects: Education and learning > Readings/interpretations/reading notes > German; Fiction > Poetry, drama; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General