The Selected Letters of Lidian Jackson Emerson
Author : Lidian Jackson Emerson
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Lidian Jackson Emerson
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Lidian Jackson Emerson
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,32 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Joel Myerson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 1999-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780231500326
In 1939 Columbia University Press published the acclaimed first volume of The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, which presented a deeply personal portrait of the real Emerson, previously unknown to the American public. Through these letters readers gained a new insight into the mind of this seminal figure in American literary and intellectual history. Now, for the first time, readers can find Emerson's best letters distilled in one volume. Distinguished Emerson scholar Joel Myerson has selected 350 letters written between 1813 and 1880 that best represents the scope of Emerson's correspondence.
Author : Mary Moody Emerson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 21,32 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820314624
Scholars have long recognized that Mary Moody Emerson (1774-1863) had a vital influence on the intellectual development of her nephew, Ralph Waldo Emerson, during his most formative years. The extent of that influence--and the quality of Mary Emerson's own mind--are apparent, however, only through her extensive correspondence spanning seventy years. The Selected Letters of Mary Moody Emerson makes available for the first time this important collection of letters within the Emerson family papers and firmly establishes Mary Emerson as a woman of strong and independent mind. Moreover, as Emerson himself realized, his aunt's letters reveal much about the political, social, and religious concerns that dominated her age--the critical period from the American Revolution to the Civil War. Mary Emerson rejoiced in what she called a "period of wonderfull revolutions" and through her correspondence engaged actively in the disputes of the time. During these years the new Constitution was tried and tested, most severely by slavery and the Civil War but also by the War of 1812, the rapid expansion westward, and the increasingly materialistic and capitalistic pursuits of the American people. These letters contain wide references to the people, events, and controversies of the period. They also reveal the impact of changing conditions on an individual woman--a woman of curiosity and self-reliance who sought to define herself in a patriarchal culture. Ralph Waldo Emerson once commented that in her "prime" Mary Emerson was the "best writer in New England". The letter became her art form, and she managed to transform it into a vehicle for free discussion. Her many correspondents--fifty-five in all--included her Emerson nephews William, Waldo, Edward, and Charles, as well as Charles's fiancee, Elizabeth Hoar, and Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley. For this edition, Nancy Simmons has chosen some 333 letters that represent the contours of Mary Emerson's life and thought. A valuable contribution to literary, historical, religious, and feminist scholarship, The Selected Letters of Mary Moody Emerson recovers from the footnotes of literary history a woman of considerable intellectual influence.
Author : Emerson family
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Page : pages
File Size : 21,83 MB
Release : 1848
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Photostatic copies of a few Emerson family letters from August, 1889. Correspondents are Edith Emerson Forbes, her sister Ellen Tucker Emerson, and their mother Lidian Jackson Emerson. Also, a typescript of a paper on Thomas Carlyle written by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1848 and read by him before the Massachusetts Historical Society shortly after Carlyle's death in 1881.
Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 15,46 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780231068703
V. 1. 1813-1835 -- v. 2. 1836-1841 -- v. 3. 1842-1847 -- v. 4. 1848-1855 -- v. 5. 1856-1867 -- v. 6. 1868-1881 -- v. 7. 1807-1844 -- v. 8. 1845-1859. -- v. 9. 1860-1869. -- v. 10. 1870-1881, and an index of proper names for volumes seven to ten.
Author : Christopher Hanlon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192647091
The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson is the most expansive collection of critical essays on Emerson to date, a survey that approaches Emerson from the vantages of climate change, racial justice, print culture, the digital humanities, the new religious studies, hemispheric American Studies, health humanities, and affect theory among other critical perspectives. Curated between a forward by editor Christopher Hanlon--who makes the case for a capacious and contemporary Emerson--and Cornel West--the activist-scholar whose influential work on Emerson merges with a career of advocacy for economic and racial justice?this collection assesses the history and state of Emerson scholarship while charting pathways for new work on this most essential American writer. Comprised of new works by leading figures in nineteenth-century Americanist literary studies, the volume suggests directions into underexamined facets of Emerson's writing, life, and reputation. From Emerson's engagements with energy infrastructure and the processes of extraction that undergirded the locomotives he rode and the energy economies he sometimes extolled; to the vicissitudes of age he experienced alongside the romantic tropes of youthful vigour he both re-circulated and re-tooled; to Emerson's poetry, both in its philosophical formulations and in its reflections of the material circumstances of nineteenth-century print culture; to Emerson's resonance beyond the United States, elsewhere in the western hemisphere; to the Black press and its refractions of Emersonian transcendentalism in the midst of ante- and post-bellum justice struggles; to the legacies of Emerson to be found in the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Rachel Carson, and in the versions of ?Emerson? to be found in children's literature; to his often-fraught and often-fruitful engagements with reform movements of various sorts; to the prospects for digital processes of re-reading Emerson and his contemporaries' styles of textual production and engagement, The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson is a necessary resource for students, scholars, and general readers committed to the study of Emerson, transcendentalism, and current critical approaches to United States literature.
Author : Jana L. Argersinger
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 30,83 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820346772
The first large-scale, collaborative study of women's voices and their vital role in the American transcendentalist movement. Many of its seventeen distinguished scholars work from newly recovered archives, and all offer fresh readings of understudied topics and texts, shedding light on female contributions.
Author : Wesley Mott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 16,59 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107028019
This collection explores the many intellectual and social contexts in which Emerson lived, thought and wrote.
Author : Joel Myerson
Publisher : Historical Guides to American Authors
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195120943
Emerson has maintained his place as one of the seminal figures in American history and literature. He was the acknowledged leader of the Transcendentalist movement. These essays discuss Emerson's life as well as women's rights, slavery and religion.