The new Cambridge companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson / edited by Michael Jonik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jonik, Michael, 1979- editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo.

Authors, American--19th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Transcendentalists (New England)--Biography.

Transcendentalists (New England).

Romanticism--United States.

Romanticism.

United States--Intellectual life--19th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 314 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

While Emerson's place in American literary history has remained secure, the New Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson draws on a wealth of recent Emerson scholarship which has highlighted his contemporary relevance for questions of philosophy and politics, ecology and science, poetics and aesthetics, or identity and race, and connects these to the key formal and interpretive issues at stake in understanding his work. The volume's contributors engage the full breadth of Emerson's writing, developing novel approaches to canonical works like Nature, the essays 'Self-Reliance' 'Experience,' or to his poetry and journals, and bringing critical attention to his lectures and to the long-overlooked texts of his later period. This New Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson thus both bears witness to the new Emersons that have emerged in the past decades, and draws a new circle in Emerson's reception.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2026).

ISBN:

1-009-34772-1

1-009-34774-8

9781009347730