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Mary Moody Emerson and the origins of transcendentalism : a family history /
Mary Moody Emerson has long been a New England legend, the "eccentric Calvinist aunt" of Ralph Waldo Emerson, wearing a death-shroud as her daily garment. This exciting new study, based on the first reading of all her known letters and diaries, reveals a complex human voice and powerful fo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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| Colección: | Oxford University Press on-line.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Mary Moody Emerson has long been a New England legend, the "eccentric Calvinist aunt" of Ralph Waldo Emerson, wearing a death-shroud as her daily garment. This exciting new study, based on the first reading of all her known letters and diaries, reveals a complex human voice and powerful forerunner of American Transcendentalism. From the years of her famous nephew's infancy, in both private and published writings, she celebrated independence, solitude in nature, and inward communion with God. Mary Moody Emerson inherited both resources and constraints from her family, a lineage of Massachusetts |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 370 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-359) and index. |
| ISBN: | 058532686X 9780585326863 1601295960 9781601295965 9780195039498 0195039491 |