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Subject(s)

• Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Authors, American—19th century—Biography [Browse]
• Transcendentalists (New England)—Biography [Browse]
• Romanticism—United States [Browse]
• United States—Intellectual life—19th century [Browse]

Editor

Jonik, Michael, 1979- [Browse]

Jonik, Michael, 1979- [Browse]

Summary note

"This volume offers new perspectives on Emerson in relation to his contemporary moment; his religious and spiritual development; transatlantic Romanticism; nature, the environment, and climate; ethics and self-reliance; political resistance and slavery; race, U.S. imperialism and Asia; and aesthetics, poetry, philosophy, and experimentalism"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

• Introduction : Emerson's circles / Michael Jonik
• Emerson's times / Jeffrey Insko
• Spiritual laws : religion and rainbows / Devin Zuber
• Emerson and transnational romanticisms / Jennifer Baker
• Nature, ecology, climate : Emerson's ecopoetical thought / Laura Dassow Walls
• "Allied to all" : Emerson and ethics beyond "self-reliance" / Prentiss Clark
• Life, form and power in 'Experience" / Michael Jonik
• Emerson at the lectern and the voiced essay / Tom F. Wright
• Labor, slavery and the Civil War / Sophia Forster
• Democracy / Johannes Voelz
• English traits / David LaRocca
• "Numbers wild" : Emerson's poetry and metaphysics / Danielle Follett
• Writing Emerson into the history of American philosophy / Joseph Urbas
• Emerson and science / Mark Noble
• Emerson's aesthetics : the abiding life of beauty / Nicholas Guardiano
• Emerson, Asia and "the progress of culture" / Spencer Tricker
• Emerson's late styles / Sean Ross Meehan
• Emersonian aesthetics in the 20th century / Paul Grimstad.

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ISBN

• 1-009-34772-1
• 1-009-34774-8

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