Research Catalog

Title

The selected lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson / edited by Ronald A. Bosco & Joel Myerson.

Author

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882

Publication

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2005.

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Additional Authors

• Bosco, Ronald A.
• Myerson, Joel

Description

xxxvi, 379 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This is the fust 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. Best known to his contemporaries as a lecturer, Emerson delivered some 1,500 addresses over the course of his career. Because his most important ideas were worked out in his lectures, they provide the best record we have of his evolving thought-and thus are a key to understanding his essays and other printed works." "Based on authoritative texts selected and edited by Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson-the most experienced Emerson editors working today-these twenty-five addresses from 1833 to 1871 on American culture; literary theory and aesthetics; moral and, as Emerson called it, "intellectual" philosophy; and social and political reform collectively exemplify the lecture style for which Emerson was famed in his day. Book jacket."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Speeches. Selections

Alternative Title

Speeches.

Subject

Speeches, addresses, etc., American

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The uses of natural history (1833-1835) -- Humanity of science (1836-1848) -- Ethics (1837-1840) -- An address delivered at Providence, Rhode Island, on the occasion of the opening of the Greene Street School (10 June 1837) -- Human culture : introductory lecture read at the Masonic Temple in Boston (1837-1838) -- Genius (1839) -- The poet (1841-1842) -- New England : genius, manners, and customs (1843-1844) -- The spirit of the times (1848-1856) -- The tendencies and duties of men of thought (1848-1850) -- England (1848-1852) -- Address to the citizens of Concord on the fugitive slave law (1851) -- The Anglo-American (1852-1855) -- Poetry and English poetry (1854) -- Address at the woman's rights convention (1855) -- Country life, Concord (1857) -- Powers of the mind (1858) -- Morals (1859) -- Reform (1860) -- Essential principles of religion (1862) -- Perpetual forces (1862-1863) -- The scholar (1863) -- Fortune of the republic (1863-1864) -- Resources (1864-1871) -- The rule of life (1867-1871).

ISBN

• 0820326445 (alk. paper)
• 0820327336 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• ^^2005008675
• 9780820326443 (alk. paper)
• 9780820327334 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC

• 58830149
• SCSB-11619377

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library