| Emerson's Prose and Poetry Contributor(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (Author), Morris, Saundra (Editor), Porte, Joel (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0393967921 ISBN-13: 9780393967920 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2001 Annotation: This new volume is the most comprehensive collection of Emerson's writings available in a paperback edition. The selections include Emerson's major sermons, lectures, essays, addresses, and poems, as well as excerpts from his journals, notebooks, and correspondence. "Contexts" addresses the topics of American Transcendentalism, philosophy, and Emerson's contemporary reception. "Criticism" includes thirteen twentieth-century essays by O. W. Firkins, Stephen E. Whicher, Perry Miller, Joel Porte, Hyatt H. Waggoner, Julie Ellison, Michael T. Gilmore, Barbara Packer, Stanley Cavell, Cornel West, Len Gougeon, Richard Poirier, and Saundra Morris. A Chronology, Selected Bibliography, and Index are included. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | American - General - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 814.3 |
| LCCN: 00056879 |
| Series: Norton Critical Editions |
| Physical Information: 0.96" H x 5.8" W x 9.16" (1.57 lbs) 816 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - New England - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The selections include Emerson's major sermons, lectures, essays, addresses, and poems, as well as excerpts from his journals, notebooks, and correspondence. Contexts addresses the topics of American Transcendentalism, philosophy, and Emerson's contemporary reception. Criticism includes thirteen twentieth-century essays by O. W. Firkins, Stephen E. Whicher, Perry Miller, Joel Porte, Hyatt H. Waggoner, Julie Ellison, Michael T. Gilmore, Barbara Packer, Stanley Cavell, Cornel West, Len Gougeon, Richard Poirier, and Saundra Morris. A Chronology, Selected Bibliography, and Index are included. |
Contributor Bio(s): Morris, Saundra: - Saundra Morris is Associate Professor of English and Senior Fellow, Social Justice College at Bucknell University, where she has taught since 1995. She is a Stanley J. Karhl Fellow of Literary Manuscripts at Houghton Library, Harvard University.Porte, Joel: - Joel Porte is Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Cornell University, where he has taught since 1987. He is the author of In Respect to Egotism: Studies in American Romantic Writing; Representative Man: Ralph Waldo Emerson in His Time; and The Romance of America: Studies in Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and James. He is editor, with Saundra Morris, of The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson. |