Research Catalog

Title

The political Emerson : essential writings on politics and social reform / Ralph Waldo Emerson ; edited by David M. Robinson.

Author

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

Publication

Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors

Robinson, David, 1947-

Description

212 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) never considered himself a political thinker. And yet he rose to prominence during one of the most turbulent times in U.S. history. As a result, political questions grew in importance for him, becoming by the 1860's one of his chief concerns as a public intellectual. In The Political Emerson, David M. Robinson has brought together for the first time the best of Emerson's numerous writings on politics and social reform."--Jacket.

Subject

• Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century
• Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century
• Social problems > United States > History > 19th century
• To 1899
• United States > Politics and government > 1815-1861
• United States > Politics and government > 1861-1865
• United States > Social conditions > To 1865

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-209).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : Emerson as a political thinker -- To Martin Van Buren, president of the United States (1838) -- Man the reformer (1841) -- The times : introductory lecture (1842) -- New England reformers (1844) -- Emancipation in the British West Indies (1844) -- American slavery (1855) -- Address at the Woman's Rights Convention (1855) -- John Brown (1860) -- American civilization (1862) -- The president's proclamation (1862) -- Fortune of the republic (1863).

ISBN

0807077232 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004006392

OCLC

54843988

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library