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Title: |
Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Edited by: Robert D. Habich |
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1554812690 : 9781554812691 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
408 |
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.380 Kg. |
| Published: |
Broadview Press - December 2017 |
| List Price: |
25.75 Pounds Sterling |
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In Stock
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| Essayist, lecturer, poet, and Americaâ s first â public intellectual,â Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803â 82) is the central figure in nineteenth-century American letters and the leader (albeit reluctantly) of the Transcendental group. A literary mover and shaker, Emerson directed his unpopular early radicalism toward social institutions (the Church, education, literary conventions); by his death in 1882, however, his reputation was already solidifying as a national icon. Somewhere between the iconic sage and the speculative idealist lies an Emerson that students donâ t often encounter, a flesh-and-blood figure whose writings testify to his continuing exploration of the individualâ s place in an increasingly conformist and crowded world. In its selections and its apparatus, this Broadview edition bridges the gap between Emerson and students by stressing his real-world engagements. The collection contains a range of prose and poetry addressing some of Emersonâ s major concernsâ nature and the self, imagination and the poet, religion and social reformâ as he explores the enduring question â How shall I live?â Historical appendices include primary materials on Transcendentalism; the contemporary debate about the nature of biblical miracles; other authorsâ responses to Emerson as a writer and thinker; and the development of his complex reputation as a representative American. Copy-texts in this edition are the first published versions of each text, restored here as Emersonâ s initial audience would have read them. |
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