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The new Cambridge companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson / edited by Michael Jonik.
- Format:
- Book
- 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.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge University Press, 2027.
- Summary:
- "This volume offers new perspectives on Emerson in relation to his contemporary moment; his religious and spiritual development; transatlantic Romanticism; nature, the environment, and climate; ethics and self-reliance; political resistance and slavery; race, U.S. imperialism and Asia; and aesthetics, poetry, philosophy, and experimentalism"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 1-009-34774-8
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