| Consciousness and Culture: Emerson and Thoreau Reviewed Contributor(s): Porte, Joel (Author), Summers, William C. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0300104464 ISBN-13: 9780300104462 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $72.27 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2006 Annotation: Emerson and Thoreau are the most celebrated odd couple of nineteenth-century American literature. Appearing to play the roles of benign mentor and eager disciple, they can also be seen as bitter rivals: America's foremost literary statesman, protective of his reputation, and an ambitious and sometimes refractory prote ge . The truth, Joel Porte maintains, is that Emerson and Thoreau were complementary literary geniuses, mutually inspiring and inspired. In this book of essays, Porte focuses on Emerson and Thoreau as "writers. "He traces their individual achievements and their points of intersection, arguing that both men, starting from a shared belief in the importance of " self-culture, " produced a body of writing that helped move a decidedly provincial New England readership into the broader arena of international culture. It is a book that will appeal to all readers interested in the writings of Emerson and Thoreau. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 810.900 |
| LCCN: 2004043842 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.48" W x 8.62" (0.89 lbs) 256 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Emerson and Thoreau are the most celebrated odd couple of nineteenth-century American literature. Appearing to play the roles of benign mentor and eager disciple, they can also be seen as bitter rivals: America's foremost literary statesman, protective of his reputation, and an ambitious and sometimes refractory prot g . The truth, Joel Porte maintains, is that Emerson and Thoreau were complementary literary geniuses, mutually inspiring and inspired. |