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Author : Lidian Jackson Emerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Selected Letters of Lidian Jackson Emerson written by Lidian Jackson Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joel Myerson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231500326
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson written by Joel Myerson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-22 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1939 Columbia University Press published the acclaimed first volume of The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson, which presented a deeply personal portrait of the real Emerson, previously unknown to the American public. Through these letters readers gained a new insight into the mind of this seminal figure in American literary and intellectual history. Now, for the first time, readers can find Emerson's best letters distilled in one volume. Distinguished Emerson scholar Joel Myerson has selected 350 letters written between 1813 and 1880 that best represents the scope of Emerson's correspondence.
Author : Lidian Jackson Emerson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Selected Letters of Lidian Jackson Emerson written by Lidian Jackson Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192647091
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Moody Emerson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820314624
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (146 download)
Download or read book The Selected Letters of Mary Moody Emerson written by Mary Moody Emerson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have long recognized that Mary Moody Emerson (1774-1863) had a vital influence on the intellectual development of her nephew, Ralph Waldo Emerson, during his most formative years. The extent of that influence--and the quality of Mary Emerson's own mind--are apparent, however, only through her extensive correspondence spanning seventy years. The Selected Letters of Mary Moody Emerson makes available for the first time this important collection of letters within the Emerson family papers and firmly establishes Mary Emerson as a woman of strong and independent mind. Moreover, as Emerson himself realized, his aunt's letters reveal much about the political, social, and religious concerns that dominated her age--the critical period from the American Revolution to the Civil War. Mary Emerson rejoiced in what she called a "period of wonderfull revolutions" and through her correspondence engaged actively in the disputes of the time. During these years the new Constitution was tried and tested, most severely by slavery and the Civil War but also by the War of 1812, the rapid expansion westward, and the increasingly materialistic and capitalistic pursuits of the American people. These letters contain wide references to the people, events, and controversies of the period. They also reveal the impact of changing conditions on an individual woman--a woman of curiosity and self-reliance who sought to define herself in a patriarchal culture. Ralph Waldo Emerson once commented that in her "prime" Mary Emerson was the "best writer in New England". The letter became her art form, and she managed to transform it into a vehicle for free discussion. Her many correspondents--fifty-five in all--included her Emerson nephews William, Waldo, Edward, and Charles, as well as Charles's fiancee, Elizabeth Hoar, and Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley. For this edition, Nancy Simmons has chosen some 333 letters that represent the contours of Mary Emerson's life and thought. A valuable contribution to literary, historical, religious, and feminist scholarship, The Selected Letters of Mary Moody Emerson recovers from the footnotes of literary history a woman of considerable intellectual influence.
Author : Barbara Ryan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252030710
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Love, Wages, Slavery written by Barbara Ryan and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With the home the sacred center of social life in the nineteenth-century United States, few social tensions carried more weight than "the servant problem." As slavery tore at the nation, tension about domestic dependency became a heated topic to which publishers responded by producing a steady stream of literature instructing homemakers how to hire, treat, and discipline staff. In Love, Wages, Slavery, Barbara Ryan surveys an expansive collection of these published materials to chart shifts in thinking about what made a servant "good" and how servitors felt about attending non-kin, as well as changing ideas about gender, waged and chattel labor, status, race, and family life." "Love, Wages, Slavery examines the nature of "free" servitude before and after Emancipation through an in-depth comparison of negotiations of attendance and household management. Paying particular attention to women servants, Ryan traces a complex discussion as it developed in such magazines as the Atlantic Monthly, Godey's Lady's Book, and Harper's Bazar."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Phyllis Cole
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195039491
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
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 1998 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "eccentric Calvinist aunt" of 19th-century intellectual Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mary Moody Emerson has long been a New England legend. Barred from the pulpit and university by her sex, she refused marriage to become a reader, writer, and religious seeker. This exciting new study, based on her known letters and diaries, reveals a complex human voice and powerful forerunner of American Transcendentalism. Photos.
Author : Jean McClure Mudge
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783740973
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)
Download or read book Mr. Emerson's Revolution written by Jean McClure Mudge and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces the life, thought and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a giant of American intellectual history, whose transforming ideas greatly strengthened the two leading reform issues of his day: abolition and women’s rights. A broad and deep, yet cautious revolutionary, he spoke about a spectrum of inner and outer realities—personal, philosophical, theological and cultural—all of which gave his mid-career turn to political and social issues their immediate and lasting power. This multi-authored study frankly explores Emerson's private prejudices against blacks and women while he also publicly championed their causes. Such a juxtaposition freshly charts the evolution of Emerson's slow but steady application of his early neo-idealism to emancipating blacks and freeing women from social bondage. His shift from philosopher to active reformer had lasting effects not only in America but also abroad. In the U.S. Emerson influenced such diverse figures as Thoreau, Whitman, Dickinson and William James, and in Europe Mickiewicz, Wilde, Kipling, Nietzsche, and Camus, as well as many leading followers in India and Japan. The book includes over 170 illustrations, among them eight custom-made maps of Emerson's haunts and wide-ranging lecture itineraries as well as a new four-part chronology of his life placed alongside both national and international events as well as major inventions. Mr. Emerson's Revolution provides essential reading for students and teachers of American intellectual history, the abolitionist and women’s rights movement―and for anyone interested in the nineteenth-century roots of these seismic social changes.
Author : Megan Marshall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618711697
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (116 download)
Download or read book The Peabody Sisters written by Megan Marshall and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways our American Brontes. The story of these remarkable sisters -- and their central role in shaping the thinking of their day -- has never before been fully told. Twenty years in the making, Megan Marshall's monumental biograpy brings the era of creative ferment known as American Romanticism to new life. Elizabeth, the oldest sister, was a mind-on-fire thinker. A powerful influence on the great writers of the era -- Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau among them -- she also published some of their earliest works. It was Elizabeth who prodded these newly minted Transcendentalists away from Emerson's individualism and toward a greater connection to others. Mary was a determined and passionate reformer who finally found her soul mate in the great educator Horace Mann. The frail Sophia was a painter who won the admiration of the preeminent society artists of the day. She married Nathaniel Hawthorne -- but not before Hawthorne threw the delicate dynamics among the sisters into disarray. Marshall focuses on the moment when the Peabody sisters made their indelible mark on history. Her unprecedented research into these lives uncovered thousands of letters never read before as well as other previously unmined original sources. The Peabody Sisters casts new light on a legendary American era. Its publication is destined to become an event in American biography. This book is highly recommended for students and reading groups interested in American history, American literature, and women's studies. It is a wonderful look into 19th-century life.
Author : Ronald A. Bosco
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195140362
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book The Emerson Brothers written by Ronald A. Bosco and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features a narrative and epistolary biography, based upon the correspondence exchanged among the four Emerson brothers and the women who were most important to them. The Emerson brothers' correspondence is the last body of personal writings remaining in manuscript from Ralph Waldo Emerson and his extended family.
Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231068703
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (687 download)
Download or read book The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson written by Ralph Waldo Emerson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1939 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 1. 1813-1835 -- v. 2. 1836-1841 -- v. 3. 1842-1847 -- v. 4. 1848-1855 -- v. 5. 1856-1867 -- v. 6. 1868-1881 -- v. 7. 1807-1844 -- v. 8. 1845-1859. -- v. 9. 1860-1869. -- v. 10. 1870-1881, and an index of proper names for volumes seven to ten.
Author : Sandra Harbert Petrulionis
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1609380975
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Thoreau in His Own Time written by Sandra Harbert Petrulionis and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than any other Transcendentalist of his time, Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) embodied the full complement of the movement’s ideals and vocations: author, advocate for self-reform, stern critic of society, abolitionist, philosopher, and naturalist. The Thoreau of our time—valorized anarchist, founding environmentalist, and fervid advocate of civil disobedience—did not exist in the nineteenth century. In this rich and appealing collection, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis untangles Thoreau’s multiple identities by offering a wide range of nineteenth-century commentary as the opinions of those who knew him evolved over time. The forty-nine recollections gathered in Thoreau in His Own Time demonstrate that it was those who knew him personally, rather than his contemporary literati, who most prized Thoreau’s message, but even those who disparaged him respected his unabashed example of an unconventional life. Included are comments by Ralph Waldo Emerson—friend, mentor, Walden landlord, and progenitor of the spin on Thoreau’s posthumous reputation; Nathaniel Hawthorne, who could not compliment Thoreau without simultaneously denigrating him; and John Weiss, whose extended commentary on Thoreau’s spirituality reflects unusual tolerance. Selections from the correspondence of Caroline Healey Dall, Maria Thoreau, Sophia Hawthorne, Sarah Alden Bradford Ripley, and Amanda Mather amplify our understanding of the ways in which nineteenth-century women viewed Thoreau. An excerpt by John Burroughs, who alternately honored and condemned Thoreau, asserts his view that Thoreau was ever searching for the unattainable. The dozens of primary sources in this crisply edited collection illustrate the complexity of Thoreau’s iconoclastic singularity in a way that no one biographer could. Each entry is introduced by a headnote that places the selection in historical and cultural context. Petrulionis’s comprehensive introduction and her detailed chronology of personal and literary events in Thoreau’s life provide a lively and informative gateway to the entries themselves. The collaborative biography that Petrulionis creates in Thoreau in His Own Time contextualizes the strikingly divergent views held by his contemporaries and highlights the reasons behind his profound legacy.
Author : Ellen Tucker Emerson
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 1628951400
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Life of Lidian Jackson Emerson written by Ellen Tucker Emerson and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 1991-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellen Tucker Emerson's biography of her mother, Lidian Jackson Emerson, provides important insights into the life of Ralph Waldo Emerson's wife of 46 years. Delores Bird Carpenter has carefully edited this narrative to enhance continuity and to ensure completeness.
Author : Jack Salzman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521365598
Total Pages : 1124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (655 download)
Download or read book American Studies written by Jack Salzman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-05-25 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume supplements the acclaimed three volume set published in 1986 and consists of an annotated listing of American Studies monographs published between 1984 and 1988. There are more than 6,000 descriptive entries in a wide range of categories: anthropology and folklore, art and architecture, history, literature, music, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, science and technology, and sociology.
Author : Jeffrey S. Cramer
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640091327
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Solid Seasons written by Jeffrey S. Cramer and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughtfully researched, movingly presented dual–biography of two iconic American writers, each trying to find the ideal friend with whom they could share their journey through our imperfect world. Any biography that concentrates on either Henry David Thoreau or Ralph Waldo Emerson tends to diminish the other figure, but in Solid Seasons both men remain central and equal. Through several decades of writing, friendship remained a primary theme for them both. Collecting extracts from the letters and journals of both men, as well as words written about them by their contemporaries, Jeffrey S. Cramer beautifully illustrates the full nature of their twenty–five–year dialogue. Biographers like to point at the crisis in their friendship, focusing particularly on Thoreau's disappointment in Emerson—rarely on Emerson's own disappointment in Thoreau—and leaving it there, a friendship ruptured. But the solid seasons remained, as is evident when, in 1878, Anne Burrows Gilchrist, the English writer and friend of Whitman, visited Emerson. She wrote that his memory was failing "as to recent names and topics but as is usual in such cases all the mental impressions that were made when he was in full vigour remain clear and strong." As they chatted, Emerson called to his wife, Lidian, in the next room, "What was the name of my best friend?" "Henry Thoreau," she answered. "Oh, yes," Emerson repeated. "Henry Thoreau."
Author : Joel Myerson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199727964
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (279 download)
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.
Author : Robert D. Richardson Jr.
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520918371
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
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 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
