Oliver Wendell Holmes claimed Ralph Waldo Emerson's lecture "The American Scholar" was an intellectual Declaration of Independence. Indeed, Emerson was at the center of the American Renaissance and Transcendentalist philosophy. Collectively, his...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes claimed Ralph Waldo Emerson's lecture "The American Scholar" was an intellectual Declaration of Independence. Indeed, Emerson was at the center of the American Renaissance and Transcendentalist philosophy. Collectively, his essays and lectures gave shape to nearly all that followed in American literature. Emerson's Essays presents scholarly criticism on the major works of this famous American writer. This engrossing volume is sure to be a top-notch resource for those seeking to explore Emerson's concepts, which are as relevant today as they were more than 100 years ago
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-290) and index
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Cover; Contents; Editor's Note; Introduction: The American Sublime by Harold Bloom; Circles by Stephen Whicher; Reading Emerson for the Structure by Lawrence I. Buell; Spelling Time: The Reader in Emerson's ""Circles"" by David M. Wyatt; Experience by Barbara Packer; Emerson: The American Religion by Harold Bloom; Representing Grief: Emerson's ""Experience"" by Sharon Cameron; From Wordsworth to Emerson by David Bromwich; ""Here or Nowhere"": Essays: Second Series by David M. Robinson; Friendship and Love by George Kateb; From Philosophy to Rhetoric by Pamela Schirmeister
Justice to Emerson by Kerry LarsonAfterthought: Reflections in the Evening Land by Harold Bloom; Chronology; Contributors; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index
