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Title:

Emerson for the twenty-first century : global perspectives on an American icon / edited by Barry Tharaud.

Publisher:

University of Delaware Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

x, 610 p. : ports. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,--1803-1882--Criticism and interpretation.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo,--1803-1882--Influence.

Other Authors:

Tharaud, Barry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"Emerson, literary globalism, and the circularity of influence" -- "The theme of mind in Emerson's English traits" -- "Beauty meets beast: Emerson's English traits" -- "A tale of three cities: Emerson, Louis-Philippe, and transatlantic uses of great men" -- "East of Emerson" -- "Transcendental Brahmin: Emerson's 'Hindu' sentiments" -- "'We want men... who can open their eyes wider than to a nationality': Ralph Waldo Emerson's vision of an American world literature" -- "Paths to Nature: Emerson's early natural history lectures" -- "Nocturnal outings: Emerson on dreams" -- "British science, the London lectures, and Emerson's philosophical reorientation" -- "'Every truth tends to become a power': Emerson, Faraday, and the minding of matter" -- "Emerson on nature and the rhetoric of thought" -- "Seeing metaphors" -- "Emerson's autobiographical philosophy" -- "Death, love, and Emerson's poetry" -- "Emerson and postmodernism" -- "Transcendentalism, transnationalism, and anti-slavery violence: Concord's embrace of John Brown" -- "'Only justice satisfies all': Emerson's militant transcendentalism" -- "Simular man: Emerson and cosmopolitan identity" -- "The guano of history".

ISBN:

9781611491456
1611491452
0874130913 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780874130911 (hbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2009038249

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)