This book is a collection of essays about Ralph Waldo Emerson written from a wide variety of critical perspectives. It assesses the history and state of Emerson scholarship while suggesting directions for future work.
This book is a collection of essays about Ralph Waldo Emerson written from a wide variety of critical perspectives. It assesses the history and state of Emerson scholarship while suggesting directions for future work.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Christopher Hanlon is Professor of United States literature at Arizona State University. He is the author of America's England: Atlantic Sectionalism and Antebellum Literature (Oxford, 2013) and Emerson's Memory Loss: Originality, Communality, and the Late Style (Oxford, 2018) as well as numerous essays on American literature and culture published in outlets such as The New York Times, The L.A. Review of Books, American Literary History, American Literature, J19, and Nineteenth-Century Literature.
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* Forward * Part 1 * Climate, or, Emerson and the Environmental Humanities * Emerson, Energy, Infrastructure * Emerson Undersea * 'Up again, old heart!': Emerson in the Athropocene * The 'Mute Music' in Emerson's Polarity: Generating Practical Power * Transcendental Geologies: Emerson, Anti-slavery, and the Kairos of Deep Time * 'The Seed of the World': Emerson's Transatlantic Transcendentalist First Philosophy" * Part 2 * American Civilization, or, Hemispheric Emersons * Emerson, Martí, and a Cosmopolitanism for the Americas * Emersonian Figurations in Modern Hispanic Poetics * Emerson and Caribbean Emancipation * Part 3 * Race, or, Emancipation and Resistance * Speaking for 'the Indian' * 'The calamity of the next ages': Emerson and Reconstruction * Emerson and Carlyle: Race and (Anti-)Slavery * Nature's President: Emerson on Emancipation and Executive Power * Emersonian Legacies of Black Resistance * The 'arch-abolitionist': Emerson, Love, and Social Justice * Part 4 * Wealth, or, Capitalism and its Alternatives * Emerson and Capitalism * Emerson's Market Forces * Emerson and the Socialists: American Renaissance in the Age of Fourier * Part 5 * Worship, or, Religion and the Secular * Emerson among the Methodists * Emerson and Secularism * Part 6 * Prospects, or, Computational Approaches to Emerson * Experimenting with Emerson: A Quantitative Approach * Emerson's Unoriginality and the Commonplace Books of Mary Moody Emerson and Margaret Fuller * Part 7 * Quotation and Originality, or, Emerson's Editors * Editing Emerson * Emerson, Nature, and Networks in the Black Press * Ellen Tucker Emerson: Portrait of a Daughter as Secretary, Editor, and Biographer * Part 8 * The Man of the World, or, Readers, Interlocutors, Networks * 'Fleeing to fables': Reading Emerson in Literature for Children * Emerson, Melville, Futility * Emerson, Rhetoric, and Oratorical Culture * Lydia Jackson Emerson * Part 9 * The Poet, or, From Commonplacing Verse to Poetic Print Culture * Metamorphosis and Transcription: Emerson's 'The Poet' and the Question of Form * Emerson's Muses, Poets, and Persons from The Dial to The Atlantic Monthly * Part 10 * "Me" and "Not-Me," or, Emersonian Embodiments, Affects, Intimacies * 'Nature Abhors the Old': Emerson's Transcendental Ageism * Aphasic Etymology: A Disability Poetics and the Emerson-Whitman Connection * From Iconoclast to Icon: The Public Intellectual as Celebrity * Emerson, Reluctant Feminist * Emerson and the Wildness of Friendship * Afterward: Ralph Waldo Emerson Transfigured * Bibliography * Index
* Forward * Part 1 * Climate, or, Emerson and the Environmental Humanities * Emerson, Energy, Infrastructure * Emerson Undersea * 'Up again, old heart!': Emerson in the Athropocene * The 'Mute Music' in Emerson's Polarity: Generating Practical Power * Transcendental Geologies: Emerson, Anti-slavery, and the Kairos of Deep Time * 'The Seed of the World': Emerson's Transatlantic Transcendentalist First Philosophy" * Part 2 * American Civilization, or, Hemispheric Emersons * Emerson, Martí, and a Cosmopolitanism for the Americas * Emersonian Figurations in Modern Hispanic Poetics * Emerson and Caribbean Emancipation * Part 3 * Race, or, Emancipation and Resistance * Speaking for 'the Indian' * 'The calamity of the next ages': Emerson and Reconstruction * Emerson and Carlyle: Race and (Anti-)Slavery * Nature's President: Emerson on Emancipation and Executive Power * Emersonian Legacies of Black Resistance * The 'arch-abolitionist': Emerson, Love, and Social Justice * Part 4 * Wealth, or, Capitalism and its Alternatives * Emerson and Capitalism * Emerson's Market Forces * Emerson and the Socialists: American Renaissance in the Age of Fourier * Part 5 * Worship, or, Religion and the Secular * Emerson among the Methodists * Emerson and Secularism * Part 6 * Prospects, or, Computational Approaches to Emerson * Experimenting with Emerson: A Quantitative Approach * Emerson's Unoriginality and the Commonplace Books of Mary Moody Emerson and Margaret Fuller * Part 7 * Quotation and Originality, or, Emerson's Editors * Editing Emerson * Emerson, Nature, and Networks in the Black Press * Ellen Tucker Emerson: Portrait of a Daughter as Secretary, Editor, and Biographer * Part 8 * The Man of the World, or, Readers, Interlocutors, Networks * 'Fleeing to fables': Reading Emerson in Literature for Children * Emerson, Melville, Futility * Emerson, Rhetoric, and Oratorical Culture * Lydia Jackson Emerson * Part 9 * The Poet, or, From Commonplacing Verse to Poetic Print Culture * Metamorphosis and Transcription: Emerson's 'The Poet' and the Question of Form * Emerson's Muses, Poets, and Persons from The Dial to The Atlantic Monthly * Part 10 * "Me" and "Not-Me," or, Emersonian Embodiments, Affects, Intimacies * 'Nature Abhors the Old': Emerson's Transcendental Ageism * Aphasic Etymology: A Disability Poetics and the Emerson-Whitman Connection * From Iconoclast to Icon: The Public Intellectual as Celebrity * Emerson, Reluctant Feminist * Emerson and the Wildness of Friendship * Afterward: Ralph Waldo Emerson Transfigured * Bibliography * Index
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