From Emerson's 4,500 letters, here are 350 that illuminate the intellectual life of this American sage and provide information about his first wife's death, his mentally ill brother, and the tragic loss of his son.
There is no question that Emerson has maintained his place as one of the seminal figures in American history and literature. In his time, he was the acknowledged leader of the Transcendentalist movement and his poetic legacy, education ideals, and religious concepts are integral to the formation of American intellectual life. In this volume, Joel ...
This 15th volume of "Studies" continues its tradition of presenting a wide range of scholarly articles. The essays and their authors are: "The record of a friendship: the letters of Convers Francis to Frederic Henry Hedge in Bangor and Providence, 1835-1850", by Guy R. Woodsall; "Margaret Fuller as a teacher in Providence: the school journal of ...
From her eleventh year to the month of her death at age 55, Louisa May Alcott kept copious journals. She never intended for them to be published, but the insights they provide into her remarkable life are invaluable. Alcott grew up in a genteel but impoverished household, surrounded by the literary and philosophical elite of 19th-century New ...
The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is intended as an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting essays by a distinguished array of contributors, the Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings like A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, on ...
One hundred years after Ralph Waldo Emer-son's death in Concord is an appropriate time to assess his life and writings. The eleven essays here presented, along with new documentary and manuscript material soon to be made available, will provide a fresh im-petus for subsequent studies of Emerson as man and writer. The first four essays trace ...
The Emerson Brothers: A Fraternal Biography in Letters is a narrative and epistolary biography based upon the lifelong correspondence exchanged among the four Emerson brothers: Charles Chauncy, Edward Bliss, Ralph Waldo, and William Emerson, as well as Charles' 181 letters to his fiancee Elizabeth Hoar (one of the few extended series of courtship ...
The transcendentalist movement is generally recognized to be the first major watershed in American literary and intellectual history. Pioneered by Emerson, Thoreau, Orestes Brownson, Margaret Fuller, and Bronson Alcott (among others), Transcendentalism provided a springboard for the first distinctly American forays into intellectual culture: ...
A comprehensive collection of Emerson's writings against slavery and the subjugation of American Indians - writings that reveal Emerson's deep commitment to social reform. Included are 18 works by Emerson, including speeches and lectures, on the subject of slavery, written between 1838 and 1863.
This is the first and only comprehensive selection of lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson, his era's most prominent American man of letters and one of the foremost architects of our intellectual culture. Based on authoritative texts selected and edited by Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson - the most experienced Emerson editors working today - these ...
This volume contains a selection of articles by the famous critic, originally published in the New York Tribune in the mid-19th century. Fuller reviewed American and English literature, music, culture, affairs of state, and the art of the day. A searchable CD-ROM, contains all of Fuller's 250 New York Tribune writings.
A broad cross-section of letters from the correspondence of the creator of "Little Women". This collection provides an autobiography spanning 45 years and provides an account of Alcott's life and development as a writer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was one of the seminal figures in American intellectual history, literature and culture. In his time he was the acknowledged leader of the Trascendentalist movement; his poetic legacy stretches from Walt Whitman to Allen Ginsberg; his educational ideals have been embraced by many; and his religious concepts greatly ...
Writer, editor, journalist, educator, feminist, conversationalist, and reformer Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) was one of the leading intellectuals of nineteenth-century America as well as a prominent member of Concord literary circles. Yet, the challenging spirit behind her intellectual confidence and mesmerizing energy led to the invention of an ...
This bibliography on Ralph Waldo Emerson lists and annotates writings about Emerson published in English between 1980 and 1991. It is intended to complement previous Emerson bibliographies.
The American Critical Archives was a series of reference books that provide representative selection of contemporary reviews of the main works of major American authors. Specifically each volume contains both full reviews and excerpts from reviews that appeared in newspapers and weekly and monthly periodicals generally within a few months of the ...
A tribute to Matthew J, Bruccoli, the man whose life's work has centred on the study of authorship, this text examines the business of writing, publishing, and selling books. Authors, publishing professionals and scholars unravel the mysterious surrounding this tradition-bound endeavor.
This volume contains interviews with and recollections of Walt Whitman from his early days as a school teacher to the moment of his death. The selections demonstrate a wide range of attitudes towards the poet. Myerson's introduction places these accounts within the context of the time.
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