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A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year
Ralph Waldo EmersonThis meditation collection will provide an opportunity to celebrate and re-evaluate Emerson's contribution to America's spiritual history.
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Lawrence BUELLSocial 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
Stanley CavellThis 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
Ralph Waldo EmersonThese 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.
The Emerson Dilemma: Essays on Emerson and Social Reform
PreviewStephen 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 ...
Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism
Laurie Lanzen HarrisThe 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 Selected Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson
PreviewIn 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 EmersonA 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
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe 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
Oliver Wendell HolmesEmerson 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.
The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo EmersonIntroduction 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 ...
On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson
Branka ArsićIn 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 ...
The Emerson Society Quarterly
More editionsSuch 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 ...
The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism
PreviewJOSHUA DAVID BELLIN The worst feature in the history of those years, is, that no man spake for the Indian. —Ralph Waldo Emerson (EmCW 11:61) When Emerson delivered these words on September 12, 1835, to commemorate Concord's ...
The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson
Joel PorteA collection of newly commissioned essays provides a critical introduction to pastor and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo EmersonA classic collection of critical essays, poems, and letters from one of the greatest minds of nineteenth-century America.
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Lawrence BUELLIn this book Lawrence Buell conveys both the style and substance of Emerson's accomplishment--in his conception of America as the transplantation of Englishness into the new world, and in his prodigious work as writer, religious thinker, ...
Ralph Emerson Twitchell Letter to the Secretary of the ...
Ralph Emerson TwitchellA detailed report on land litigation involving the Pueblo Indians, written as Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States.
The first hundred years of Mikhail Bakhtin
Caryl Emerson"Caryl Emerson has given us a major book on a major phenomenon, as readable as it is important, one that moves authoritatively from biography through literary and philosophical analysis to the cultural frameworks in which those matters take ...
American Philosophy and Rudolf Steiner: Emerson, Thoreau, ...
Previewcontributed by Becky Gould, professor of religion and ecology at Middlebury College; and a foreword by Dan McKanan, Ralph Waldo Emerson UnitarianUniversalist Professor, Harvard Divinity School. I am gratefultoMatthew DavidSegall, ...
Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo EmersonAs he turned from the pulpit to the lecture platform in the 1830's, the journals became more and more repository for the substance of future lectures; his annual winter series, particularly those dealing with The Philosophy of History, in ...
1957 Expeditions Journal: Baja California American Museum of ...
Oakes A. PlimptonEmerson has written 150 scientific publications and eight popular shell books including: TheAmerican Museum of Natural History Guide to Shells: Land, Freshwater, and Marine from Nova Scotia to Florida by William K. Emerson and Morris K.
Emerson's Transatlantic Romanticism
D. GreenhamArsić, Branka. On Leaving: A Reading in Emerson. Harvard: Harvard UP, 2011. Print. —— and Cary Wolfe eds. ... Cavell, Stanley. The Senses of Walden ( Expanded Edition).San Francisco:North Point,1981. Print. —— In Questofthe Ordinary: ...
The Development of the Concept of Electric Charge: ...
Duane Emerson RollerElectricity from the Greeks to Coulomb Duane Emerson Roller, Duane Henry Du Bose Roller. HARVARD CASE HISTORIES IN EXPERIMENTAL SCIENCE JAMES BRYANT CONANT • GENERAL EDITOR LEONARD K. NASH • ASSOCIATE ...
Sons of Privilege: The Charleston Light Dragoons in the ...
W. Eric EmersonW. Eric Emerson traces the wartime experiences of the Charleston Light Dragoons--a unique Confederate cavalry company drawn together from South Carolina's most prestigious families of planters, merchants, and politicos--and examines the ...
Love and Respect Workbook: The Love She Most Desires; The ...
Dr. Emerson EggerichsBased upon Ephesians 5:33 and extensive biblical and psychological research, Dr. Emerson Eggerichs reveals the power of unconditional love and unconditional respect and how husbands and wives can reap the benefits of marriage that God ...
The changing world of college relations: history and ...
Waldo Emerson Reckhistory and philosophy, 1917-1975 Waldo Emerson Reck. distinguish between sound educational stories and insignificant, unimportant items . . . [but] all things considered, the American College Publicity Association deserves all the praise in ...
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