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Emerson for the twenty-first century /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark :
University of Delaware Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction: Emerson for the Twenty-first Century: Global Perspectives on an American Icon; I. Emerson, Europe, and Beyond; Emerson, Literary Globalism, and the Circularity of Influence; The Theme of Mind in Emerson's English Traits; Beauty Meets Beast: Emerson's English Traits; A Tale of Three Cities: Emerson, Louis-Philippe, and Transatlantic Uses of Great Men; East of Emerson; Transcendental Brahmin: Emerson's "Hindu" Sentiments; "We want men ... who can open their eyes wider than to a nationality": Ralph Waldo Emerson's Vision of An American World Literature.
- II. Emerson and SciencePaths to Nature: Emerson's Early Natural History Lectures; Nocturnal Outings: Emerson on Dreams; British Science, The London Lectures, and Emerson's Philosophical Reorientation; "Every truth tends to become a power": Emerson, Faraday, and the Minding of Matter; III. Emerson Thinking; Emerson on Nature and The Rhetoric of Thought; Seeing Metaphors; Emerson's Autobiographical Philosophy; Death, Love, and Emerson's Poetry; Emerson and Postmodernism; IV. Emerson and Activism; Transcendentalism, Transnationalism, and Antislavery Violence: Concord's Embrace of John Brown.
- "Only Justice Satisfies All": Emerson's Militant TranscendentalismSimular Man: Emerson and Cosmopolitan Identity; The Guano of History; Abstracts; Contributors; Index.