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03240aam a22003618i 4500 001 AA134B2CF17F11EE82DF7F7D41ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240403010045 008 230803t20242024njua e b 001 0beng 010 $a 2023036672 020 $a 0691254338 020 $a 9780691254333 035 $a (OCoLC)1381193623 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d SFR $d JTH $d GP5 $d OCLCO $d OQX $d GL4 $d HQC $d OCLCO $d JQM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS1638 M288 2024 084 $a PHI045000 $a PHI045000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Marcus, James, $d 1959- $e author. 245 10 $a Glad to the brink of fear : $b a portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson / $c James Marcus. 264 1 $a Princeton : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2024] 300 $a viii, 328 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Finding a voice -- The lives of others -- One first love -- The shining apparition -- Ruin and resurrection -- A conjunction of two planets -- The age of the first person singular -- Beautiful enemies -- The costly price of sons and lovers -- The metaphysician on tour -- Visit to a cold island -- Knocking down the hydra -- Higher laws -- An inspection of the wreck -- Terminus -- Circles. 520 $a "More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed prophet of self-reliance has obscured a much more complicated figure, who spent a lifetime wrestling with injustice, philosophy, art, desire, and suffering. James Marcus introduces readers to this Emerson, a writer of self-interrogating genius whose visionary flights are always grounded in Yankee shrewdness. This Emerson is a rebel. He is also a lover, a friend, a husband, and a father. Having declared his great topic to be "the infinitude of the private man," he is nonetheless an intensely social being, who develops Transcendentalism in the company of Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Bronson Alcott, and Theodore Parker. And although he resists political activism early on-hoping instead for a revolution in consciousness-the burning issue of slavery ultimately transforms him from cloistered metaphysician to fiery abolitionist. Drawing on telling episodes from Emerson's life alongside landmark essays like "Self-Reliance," "Experience," and "Circles," Glad to the Brink of Fear reveals how Emerson shares our preoccupations with fate and freedom, race and inequality, love and grief. It shows, too, how his desire to see the world afresh, rather than accepting the consensus view, is a lesson that never grows old"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Emerson, Ralph Waldo, $d 1803-1882 $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Authors, American $y 19th century $v Biography. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Marcus, James, 1959- $t Glad to the brink of fear $d Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2024 $z 9780691254357 $w (DLC) 2023036673 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240717023009.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240702025815.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20240502010448.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AA134B2CF17F11EE82DF7F7D41ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search