Building Their Own Waldos : Emerson's First Biographers and the Politics of Life-Writing in the Gilded Age /

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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.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882 > Criticism and interpretation > History.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882.
Biography as a literary form.
American prose literature > History and criticism.
Authors, American > Biography > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
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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