A power to translate the world : new essays on Emerson and international culture / David LaRocca and Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso, editors ; contributors, Richard Deming [and fifteen others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

LaRocca, David, 1975- editor.

Miguel-Alfonso, Ricardo, editor.

Deming, Richard, contributor.

Series:

Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies

Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882--Criticism and interpretation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882--Influence.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882--Public opinion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This work is a edited collection tracing the global impact of Emerson's thought" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Thinking Through International Influence / David LaRocca and Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso

I. Emerson beyond Borders in His Time. 1 The Anti-Slave from Emerson to Obama / Donald E. Pease; 2 Emerson, the Indian Brahmo Samaj, and the American Reception of Gandhi / David M. Robinson; 3 Transcendentalist Triangulations: The American Goethe and His Female Disciples / Monika M. Elbert; 4 Emerson, Great Britain, and the International Struggle for the Rights of the Workingman / Len Gougeon; 5 An "Extempore Adventurer" in Italy: Emerson as International Tourist, 1832/1833 / Robert D. Habich

II. Emerson and Global Modernity. 6 "Eternal Allusion": Maeterlinck's Readings of Emerson's Somatic Semiotics / David LaRocca; 7 Emerson in Germany, 1850/1933: Appreciation and Appropriation / Herwig Friedl; 8 Transcendental Modernism: Vicente Huidobro's Emersonian Poetics / Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso; 9 Rilke and Emerson: The Case against Influence as Such / Richard Deming; 10 Emerson; or, The Critic; The Arnoldian Ideal / K. L. Evans; 11 The "Whole" Conduct of Life: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry James / Daniel Rosenberg Nutters

III. Emerson and the Far East; 12 Emerson and Japan: Finding a Way of Cultural Criticism / Naoko Saito; 13 Emerson and China / Neal Dolan and Laura Jane Wey; 14 Confucius and Emerson on the Virtue of Self-Reliance / Mathew A. Foust

IV. Emerson and the Near East. 15 Emerson and Some Jewish Questions / Kenneth S. Sacks; 16 Emerson and Jewish Readers / David Mikics; 17 Middle Eastern/American Literature: A Contemporary Turn in Emerson Studies / Roger Sedarat.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61168-830-2

OCLC:

925423845