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Author:
LaRocca, David, 1975- author.
Title:
Emerson's English traits and the natural history of metaphor / David LaRocca.
Publisher:
Bloomsbury,
Copyright Date:
2013
Description:
395 pages ; 23 cm
Subject:
Emerson, Ralph Waldo,--1803-1882--Criticism and interpretation.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo,--1803-1882.--English traits.
Metaphor in literature.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo,--1803-1882.--English traits.
Metapher.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : some traits of English traits -- More prone to melancholy -- With muffins and not the promise of muffins -- The lively traits of criticism -- The cabman is phrenologist so far -- The florilegium and the cabinets of natural history -- Founding thoughts -- A child of the Saxon race -- Living without a cause -- Adapting some secret of his own anatomy -- First blood -- Second selves -- Genealogy and guilt -- The pirate baptized -- My giant goes with me -- Corresponding minds -- Titles manifold.
ISBN:
1441193170 (hb)
9781441193179 (hb)
1441161406 (pbk.)
9781441161406 (pbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)858008562
LCCN:
2013404717
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)

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