Nordic Influence On Emerson's Self-Reliance - Scofield, Elizabeth S
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"How the Scandinavian Stories Influenced the thought development of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Proof that R.W.Emerson knew about the Scandinavian Self-Reliant Trait long before he wrote the essay entitled Self-Reliance. The original concept came together in 1994 within the hallways of Portland State University, in Portland Oregon. Then it evolved and developed into a concrete written proposal as part of a Ph.D. application to Roskilde University in Denmark nearly a decade later. One year into the program, an invitation was extended by Harvard University to travel to Cambridge, Massachusetts to…mehr

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"How the Scandinavian Stories Influenced the thought development of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Proof that R.W.Emerson knew about the Scandinavian Self-Reliant Trait long before he wrote the essay entitled Self-Reliance. The original concept came together in 1994 within the hallways of Portland State University, in Portland Oregon. Then it evolved and developed into a concrete written proposal as part of a Ph.D. application to Roskilde University in Denmark nearly a decade later. One year into the program, an invitation was extended by Harvard University to travel to Cambridge, Massachusetts to conduct research using Ralph Waldo Emerson's original handwritten journals housed in Harvard Houghton Library. From there, the research took another turn - quite literally, northwest- to Concord, Massachusetts, and added new places to the research roster such as the Concord Library, the Concord Museum, the Emerson House, and finally, the Old Manse, in which a plethora of resources were discovered and utilized to make the foundation for this study complete. Volume 1"--
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Elizabeth Scofield was born in Northern California and completed her master's degree in Portland, Oregon. She has worked in Western Europe, New England and in California at various universities and language schools, and currently runs her own communications business, Esscofield Communications. This book describes her experiences as a master's student and Ph.D. candidate, which began in 1993. She was bestowed the title of Visiting Associate at Harvard University for the academic year of 2004-2005, and continued conducting research on the topic of Ralph Waldo Emerson followed by several years of volunteering at the Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts. This is her first book.