Research Catalog

Title

Emerson bicentennial essays / edited by Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson.

Publication

Boston : Massachusetts Historical Society ; Charlottesville : Distributed by the University of Virginia Press, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bosco, Ronald A.
• Myerson, Joel.

Description

xx, 473 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Massachusetts Historical Society studies in American history and culture ; 10

Uniform Title

Massachusetts Historical Society studies in American history and culture ; no. 10.

Subject

• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses

Note

• Papers from the Emerson Bicentennial Conference, held April 25-26, 2003 at the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Holmes, Cabot, and Edward Emerson and the challenges of writing Emerson's biography in the 1880s / Robert D. Habich -- Saving Emerson for posterity / Lawrence Buell -- Emerson and his audiences: the New England lectures, 1843-1844 / Nancy Craig Simmons -- Chladni patterns, Lyceum halls, and skillful experimenters: Emerson's new metaphysics for the listening reader / Sarah Ann Wider -- The new movement's tide: Emerson and women's rights / Phyllis Cole -- Emerson, Garrison, and the anti-slavery society / T. Gregory Garvey -- The legacy of reform: Emersonian idealism, Moorfield Storey, and the civil rights movement / Len Gougeon -- Poverty and power: revisiting Emerson's poetics / Joseph M. Thomas -- (Re)visiting "The Adirondacs": Emerson's confrontation with wild nature / Robert E. Burkholder -- Emerson, Columbus, and the geography of self-reliance: the example of the Sermons / Susan L. Roberson -- Emerson and gnosticism / Albert J. von Frank -- Emerson on language as action / Gustaaf Van Cromphout -- "If body can sing": Emerson and Victorian science / Laura Dassow Walls -- "The power of recurring to the sublime at pleasure": Emerson and feeling / Wesley T. Mott -- Experience, instinct, and Emerson's philosophical reorientation / David M. Robinson -- Later Emerson: "Intellect" and The conduct of life / Robert N. Hudspeth -- History and form in Emerson's "Fate" / Barbara Packer.

Call Number

JFE 06-11705

ISBN

093490989X

LCCN

• 2006007013
• 9780934909891

OCLC

64442915

Title

Emerson bicentennial essays / edited by Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson.

Imprint

Boston : Massachusetts Historical Society ; Charlottesville : Distributed by the University of Virginia Press, 2006.

Series

Massachusetts Historical Society studies in American history and culture ; 10

Massachusetts Historical Society studies in American history and culture ; no. 10.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Bosco, Ronald A.

Myerson, Joel.

Other Standard Identifier

9780934909891

Research Call Number

JFE 06-11705