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Emerson and the Climates of History

Author : Eduardo Cadava
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804728140
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Emerson and the Climates of History written by Eduardo Cadava and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a wide range of materials from history, religion, philosophy, horticulture, and meteorology to argue that Emerson articulates his conception of history through the language of the weather. Focusing on Emerson's persistent use of climatic and meteorological metaphors, the book demonstrates that Emerson's reflections on the weather are inseparable from his preoccupation with the central historical and political issues of his day. The author suggests that Emerson's writings may be read as both symptomatic and critical of the governing rhetorics through which Americans of his day thought about the most important contemporary issues, and that what has often been seen as Emerson's retreat from the arena of history into the domain of spirit is in fact an effort to re-treat or rethink the nature of history in terms of questions of representation. What distinguishes this book from the work of other critics who are reassessing Emerson's relation to history is its attempt to think through the way in which the figures of Emerson's rhetoricfigures (like frost, snow, the auroras, and nature in general) which often seem to have nothing to do with either history or politicsare themselves traversed by the conflictual histories of slavery, race, destiny, revolution, and the meaning of America. It differs, that is, in proposing a textual model for reading Emerson that measures his engagement with changing historical and political relations in terms of the way he works to revise the language he inherits. There can be no reading of Emerson, the author suggests, that does not trace the movement of his figures and tropes as they become something else, as they open onto questions of history.

Natural History of Intellect and Other Papers

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Natural History of Intellect and Other Papers written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Natural history of intellect, and other papers

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Natural history of intellect, and other papers written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Future History of the Arctic

Author : Charles Emmerson
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 1586486365
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Future History of the Arctic written by Charles Emmerson and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emmerson provides a vivid, visionary exploration of the Arctic, the forces that have shaped it, and its emergence onto the main stage of global affairs.

Emerson's Life in Science

Author : Laura Dassow Walls
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501717391
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Emerson's Life in Science written by Laura Dassow Walls and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ralph Waldo Emerson has traditionally been cast as a dreamer and a mystic, concerned with the ideals of transcendentalism rather than the realities of contemporary science and technology. In Laura Dassow Walls's view Emerson was a leader of the secular avant-garde in his day. He helped to establish science as the popular norm of truth in America and to modernize American popular thought. In addition, he became a hero to a post-Darwinian generation of Victorian Dissenters, exemplifying the strong connection between transcendentalism and later nineteenth-century science.In his early years as a minister, Emerson read widely in natural philosophy (or physics), chemistry, geology, botany, and comparative anatomy. When he left the church, it was to seek the truths written in the book of nature rather than in books of scripture. While visiting the Paris Museum of Natural History during his first European tour, Emerson experienced a revelation so intense that he declared, "I will be a naturalist." Once he was back in the United States, his first step in realizing this ambition was to deliver a series of lectures on natural science. These lectures formed the basis for his first publication, Nature (1836), and his writings ever after reflected his intense and continuing interest in science.Walls finds that Emerson matured just as the concept of "the two cultures" emerged, when the disciplines of literature and science were divorcing each other even as he called repeatedly for their marriage. Consequently, Walls writes, half of Emerson's thought has been invisible to us: science was central to Emerson, to his language, to the basic organization of his career. In Emerson's Life in Science, she makes the case that no study of literary history can be complete without embracing science as part of literature. Conversely, she maintains, no history of science is complete unless we consider the role played by writers of literature who helped to install science in the popular imagination.

A Historical Guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author : Joel Myerson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199727964
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book A Historical Guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson written by Joel Myerson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no question that Emerson has maintained his place as one of the seminal figures in American history and literature. In his time, he was the acknowledged leader of the Transcendentalist movement and his poetic legacy, education ideals, and religious concepts are integral to the formation of American intellectual life. In this volume, Joel Myerson, one of the leading experts on this period, has gathered together sparkling new essays that discuss Emerson as a product of his times. Individual chapters provide an extended biographical study of Emerson and his effect on American life, followed by studies of his concept of individualism, nature and natural science, religion, antislavery, and women's rights.

Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism

Author : Phyllis Cole
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195152005
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism by : Phyllis Cole

Download or read book Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism written by Phyllis Cole and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Moody Emerson has long been a New England legend, the "eccentric Calvinist aunt" of Ralph Waldo Emerson, wearing a death-shroud as her daily garment. This exciting new study, based on the first reading of all her known letters and diaries, reveals a complex human voice and powerful forerunner of American Transcendentalism. From the years of her famous nephew's infancy, in both private and published writings, she celebrated independence, solitude in nature, and inward communion with God. Mary Moody Emerson inherited both resources and constraints from her family, a lineage of Massachusetts ministers who had earlier practiced spiritual awakening and political resistance against England. Cole discovers a previously unexamined Emerson tradition of fervent piety in the ancestors' own writing and Mary's preservation of their memory. She also examines the position of a woman in this patriarchal family. Barred from the pulpit and university by her sex, she also refused marriage to become a reader, writer, and religious seeker. Cole's biography explores this reading and writing as both a woman's vocation and a gift to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Helping to raise her nephews after their father's death, Mary Moody Emerson urged Waldo the college student to seek solitude in nature and become a divine poet. Cole's pioneering study, tracing crucial lines of influence from Mary Emerson's heretofore unknown texts to her nephew's major works, establishes a fresh and vital source for a central American literary tradition.

Emerson

Author : Robert D. Richardson Jr.
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520918371
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Emerson written by Robert D. Richardson Jr. and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life an Emerson very different from the old stereotype of the passionless Sage of Concord. Drawing on a vast amount of new material, including correspondence among the Emerson brothers, Richardson gives us a rewarding intellectual biography that is also a portrait of the whole man. These pages present a young suitor, a grief-stricken widower, an affectionate father, and a man with an abiding genius for friendship. The great spokesman for individualism and self-reliance turns out to have been a good neighbor, an activist citizen, a loyal brother. Here is an Emerson who knew how to laugh, who was self-doubting as well as self-reliant, and who became the greatest intellectual adventurer of his age. Richardson has, as much as possible, let Emerson speak for himself through his published works, his many journals and notebooks, his letters, his reported conversations. This is not merely a study of Emerson's writing and his influence on others; it is Emerson's life as he experienced it. We see the failed minister, the struggling writer, the political reformer, the poetic liberator. The Emerson of this book not only influenced Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman, Dickinson, and Frost, he also inspired Nietzsche, William James, Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Jorge Luis Borges. Emerson's timeliness is persistent and striking: his insistence that literature and science are not separate cultures, his emphasis on the worth of every individual, his respect for nature. Richardson gives careful attention to the enormous range of Emerson's readings—from Persian poets to George Sand—and to his many friendships and personal encounters—from Mary Moody Emerson to the Cherokee chiefs in Boston—evoking both the man and the times in which he lived. Throughout this book, Emerson's unquenchable vitality reaches across the decades, and his hold on us endures.

Emerson's English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor

Author : David LaRocca
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441137025
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Emerson's English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor written by David LaRocca and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphors are ubiquitous and yet-or, for that very reason-go largely unseen. We are all variously susceptible to a blindness or blurry vision of metaphors; yet even when they are seen clearly, we are left to situate the ambiguities, conflations and contradictions they regularly present-logically, aesthetically and morally. David LaRocca's book serves as a set of 'reminders' of certain features of the natural history of our language-especially the tropes that permeate and define it. As part of his investigation, LaRocca turns to Ralph Waldo Emerson's only book on a single topic, English Traits (1856), which teems with genealogical and generative metaphors-blood, birth, plants, parents, family, names and race. In the first book-length study of English Traits in over half a century, LaRocca considers the presence of metaphors in Emerson's fertile text-a unique work in his expansive corpus, and one that is regularly overlooked. As metaphors are encountered in Emerson's book, and drawn from a long history of usage in work by others, a reader may realize (or remember) what is inherent and encoded in our language, but rarely seen: how metaphors circulate in speech and through texts to become the lifeblood of thought.

The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author : Prentiss Clark
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476647755
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Ralph Waldo Emerson written by Prentiss Clark and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-01-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his 1837 speech "The American Scholar," Ralph Waldo Emerson noted, "life is our dictionary," encapsulating a body of work that reached well beyond the American 19th century. This comprehensive study explores Emerson as a preacher, poet, philosopher, lecturer, essayist and editor. There are nearly 100 entries on individual texts and their personal, historical and literary contexts. Emerson's work is placed within his relationships with family members, fellow Transcendentalists and transatlantic friends, and his commitment to ethics, self-culture and social change. This book provides the fullest possible exploration of Emerson's writing and philosophy. Far ahead of his own time, the man enthusiastically questioned institutions, communities, friendships, history, individuality and contemporaneous approaches to environmental stewardship.

Emerson's Ghosts

Author : Associate Professor of English Randall Fuller
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195313925
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Emerson's Ghosts written by Associate Professor of English Randall Fuller and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2007-09-07 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the way influential 20th century critics have understood and deployed Emerson as part of their own larger projects aimed at reconceiving America

Transcendental Resistance

Author : Johannes Voelz
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1584659483
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book Transcendental Resistance written by Johannes Voelz and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2010 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely and engrossing critique of the New Americanists

Emerson's Complete Works: Natural history of intellect, and other papers. With a general index

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Emerson's Complete Works: Natural history of intellect, and other papers. With a general index written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Romantic Naturalists, Early Environmentalists

Author : Dewey W. Hall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317061519
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Romantic Naturalists, Early Environmentalists written by Dewey W. Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his study of Romantic naturalists and early environmentalists, Dewey W. Hall asserts that William Wordsworth and Ralph Waldo Emerson were transatlantic literary figures who were both influenced by the English naturalist Gilbert White. In Part 1, Hall examines evidence that as Romantic naturalists interested in meteorology, Wordsworth and Emerson engaged in proto-environmental activity that drew attention to the potential consequences of the locomotive's incursion into Windermere and Concord. In Part 2, Hall suggests that Wordsworth and Emerson shaped the early environmental movement through their work as poets-turned-naturalists, arguing that Wordsworth influenced Octavia Hill’s contribution to the founding of the United Kingdom’s National Trust in 1895, while Emerson inspired John Muir to spearhead the United States’ National Parks movement in 1890. Hall’s book traces the connection from White as a naturalist-turned-poet to Muir as the quintessential early environmental activist who camped in Yosemite with President Theodore Roosevelt. Throughout, Hall raises concerns about the growth of industrialization to make a persuasive case for literature's importance to the rise of environmentalism.

On Religion and Memory

Author : Babette Hellemans
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823251624
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book On Religion and Memory written by Babette Hellemans and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion and Pastness examines the implications of the Augustinian concept of time as favoring a-causality over linear continuity. From this viewpoint the various essays address problems of dynamics and stasis in texts, paintings and music ranging from Augustine to Abelard, Eriugena, Thoreau, Calvin, Shakespeare, Rubens, Bach, Stravinsky, Messiaen, Virginia Woolf, Cavell.

Beneath the American Renaissance

Author : David S. Reynolds
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199976406
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Beneath the American Renaissance written by David S. Reynolds and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. It immeasurably broadens our knowledge of our most important literary period, as first identified by F.O. Matthiessen's American Renaissance. With its combination of sharp critical insight, engaging observation, and narrative drive, it represents the kind of masterful cultural history for which David Reynolds is known. Here the major works of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson receive striking, original readings set against the rich backdrop of contemporary popular writing. Now back in print, the volume includes a new foreword by historian Sean Wilentz that reveals the book's impact and influence. A magisterial work of criticism and cultural history, Beneath the American Renaissance will fascinate anyone interested in the genesis of America's most significant literary epoch and the iconic figures who defined it.