Introduction : building their own Waldos -- A genre in transition : biography in the 1880s -- An act of wholesome and pure-hearted admiration : Emerson's first biographer, George Willis Cooke -- Biographers and the pornographer : Conway, Ireland, and Emerson and his friends -- Diagnosing the gentle iconoclast : Dr. Holmes on Emerson -- Authorizing Emerson's biography : Cabot and/or Edward Emerson -- Shelf life : the legacy of Emerson's first biographies.
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