Understanding Emerson: "The American Scholar" and His Struggle for Self-reliancePrinceton University Press, 30/03/2003 - 199 páginas A seminal figure in American literature and philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson is considered the apostle of self-reliance, fully alive within his ideas and disarmingly confident about his innermost thoughts. Yet the circumstances around "The American Scholar" oration--his first great public address and the most celebrated talk in American academic history--suggest a different Emerson. In Understanding Emerson, Kenneth Sacks draws on a wealth of contemporary correspondence and diaries, much of it previously unexamined, to reveal a young intellectual struggling to define himself and his principles. |
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List of Illustrations ix | |
America in The American Scholar | 21 |
SelfReliance | 48 |
Friends 68 | 68 |
Alcott 98 | 98 |
Forever the American Scholar 121 | 121 |
Abbreviations Used in the Notes 147 | 147 |
181 | |
196 | |
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