Building their own Waldos : Emerson's first biographers and the politics of life-writing in the Gilded Age /

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By the end of the nineteenth century, Ralph Waldo Emerson was well on his way to becoming the "Wisest American" and the "Sage of Concord," a literary celebrity and a national icon. With that fame came what Robert Habich describes as a blandly sanctified version of Emerson held wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Habich, Robert D., 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882 > Criticism and interpretation > History.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882
Authors, American > Biography > History and criticism.
American prose literature > History and criticism.
Biography as a literary form.
Biography.
Écrivains américains > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Prose américaine > Histoire et critique.
Biographie (Genre littéraire)
Biographies.
biographies (literary works)
biography (general genre)
LITERARY COLLECTIONS > Essays.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Books & Reading.
American prose literature
Authors, American > Biography
Biography as a literary form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: building their own Waldos
  • A genre in transition: biography in the 1880s
  • An act of wholesome and pure-hearted admiration: Emerson's first biographer, George Willis Cooke
  • Biographers and the pornographer: Conway, Ireland, and "Emerson and his friends"
  • Diagnosing the gentle iconoclast: Dr. Holmes on Emerson
  • Authorizing Emerson's biography: Cabot and/or Edward Emerson
  • Shelf life: the legacy of Emerson's first biographies.

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