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Aliens in the East: A New History of Japan's Foreign Intercourse

Aliens in the East: A New History of Japan's Foreign Intercourse

Harry Emerson Wildes

The author of this volume knows the Japanese from firsthand experience and has had access to historical data only recently available.
Voice of the Lord: A Biography of George Fox

Voice of the Lord: A Biography of George Fox

Harry Emerson Wildes

George Fox was the founder of Quakerism. This book tells the story of a man who was an exciting paradox--an idealist, a visionary, a pragmatist, and a philanthropist.
A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year

A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This meditation collection will provide an opportunity to celebrate and re-evaluate Emerson's contribution to America's spiritual history.
Emerson

Emerson

Lawrence BUELL

Social Thought and Reform: Emerson and Abolition Emerson lived during a time of intense national growing pains. U.S. territory expanded, its population grew, and governmental institutions changed more wrenchingly during his working life  ...
Emerson's Transcendental Etudes

Emerson's Transcendental Etudes

Stanley Cavell

This book is Stanley Cavell_s definitive expression on Emerson. Over the past thirty years, Cavell has demonstrated that he is the most emphatic and provocative philosophical critic of Emerson that America has yet known.
The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871

The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871

Ralph Waldo Emerson

These final volumes contain some of Emerson's most timelessly relevant work and are sure to engage and inform any reader interested in discovering one of our country's greatest intellectuals.
Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism

Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism

Laurie Lanzen Harris

The collected letters of Emerson and Thoreau. Spiller, Robert E. "The Four Faces of Emerson." In Four Makers of the American Mind: Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, and Melville, A Bicentennial Tribute, edited by Thomas Edward Crawley, pp.
The Emerson Dilemma: Essays on Emerson and Social Reform

The Emerson Dilemma: Essays on Emerson and Social Reform

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Stephen L. Esquith's "Power, Poise, and Place: Toward an Emersonian Theory of Democratic Citizenship" explores Emerson's legacy in relation to a resurgence of interest in citizenship among political theorists. By drawing on recent ...
The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A new, wide-ranging selection of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s most influential writings, this edition captures the essence of American Transcendentalism and illustrates the breadth of one of America’s greatest philosophers and poets.
The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The occasional "Address on Education," which Emerson delivered between these two series, may be seen as a link between them. Of the twenty-three lectures in this volume, only three have been previously published.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Emerson published his first essay, Nature in 1836. After writing this essay Emerson gave a speech entitled The American Scholar in 1837, which Oliver Wendell Holmes called America's "Intellectual Declaration of Independence.
Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America

Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America

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Matthew Hedstrom's research on three of middlebrow religious literature's best- selling authors during the 1940s—Joshua Liebman, Harry Emerson Fosdick, and Thomas Merton—complements this analysis. Where Smith emphasizes the ...
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Introduction by Mary Oliver Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Henry David Thoreau The definitive collection of Emerson’s major speeches, essays, and poetry, The Essential Writings of Ralph ...
The Harry Pfanz Gettysburg Trilogy, Omnibus E-book: Includes ...

The Harry Pfanz Gettysburg Trilogy, Omnibus E-book: Includes ...

Harry W. Pfanz

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Pfanz, Harry W. (Harry Willcox) , 1921– Gettysburg, the first day / by Harry W. Pfanz. p. cm. — (Civil War America) Includes bibliographical references (p.) and index. ISBN 0807826243 (cloth: ...
Christianity and Alcoholics Anonymous: Competing or ...

Christianity and Alcoholics Anonymous: Competing or ...

David L. Simmons

7 BB, p. 9. 8 BB, p.XVII,188–191. 9 BB, p. 33. 10 BB, p.85. 11 Harry Emerson Fosdick, Shall the Fundamentalists Win (Christian Work 102. June 10, 1922). 12 BB, p.28. 13 Alcoholics Anonymous ComesofAge op. cit., p. 81. 14 Francis Hartigan, ...
Harry Potter Collector's Handbook

Harry Potter Collector's Handbook

William Silvester

$2-$3 Harry and Hermione going to Hogwarts in boat (0-439-25429-9) Harry and Ron under invisibility cloak ... $7-$8 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Bad Group Collectors (Bm50008) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, ...
The Emerson Society Quarterly

The Emerson Society Quarterly

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Such private delight supports Paul Hourihan's thesis that Emerson thought the roles of novel-reader and sage incompatible and chose to hide the one in favor of cultivating the public image of the other. Such ambivalence in his appreciation of  ...
On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson

On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson

Branka Arsić

In his essay âeoeCompensation,âe Emerson makes a surprising claim: âeoeEvery soul is by this intrinsic necessity quitting its whole system of things, its friends, and home, and laws, and faith, as the shell-fish crawls out of its ...

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