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The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Emerson, Ralph Waldo (Author), Ferguson, Alfred R. (Editor), Carr, Jean Ferguson (Editor)
ISBN: 0674267206     ISBN-13: 9780674267206
Publisher: Belknap Press
OUR PRICE:   $37.05  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 1987
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Annotation: Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, "was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own." His celebrated essays--the twelve published in "Essays: First Series" (1841) and eight in "Essays: Second Series" (1844)--are here presented for the first time in an authoritative one-volume edition, which incorporates all the changes and corrections Emerson made after their initial publication.
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Collections | Essays
- Literary Criticism | American - General
Dewey: 814.3
LCCN: 86026567
Series: Belknap Press
Physical Information: 0.98" H x 6.21" W x 9.25" (1.10 lbs) 410 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Self-Esteem
 
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, "was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own." His celebrated essays--the twelve published in Essays: First Series (1841) and eight in Essays: Second Series (1844)--are here presented for the first time in an authoritative one-volume edition, which incorporates all the changes and corrections Emerson made after their initial publication.

The text is reproduced from the second and third volumes of The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, a critical edition which draws on the vast body of Emerson scholarship of the last half century. Alfred R. Ferguson was founding editor of the edition, followed by Joseph Slater (until 1996).


Contributor Bio(s): Carr, Jean Ferguson: - Jean Ferguson Carr is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, where she writes and teaches in composition, women's studies, history of the book, literacy, and literary studies, focusing on nineteenth-century American constructions of literacy and letters.Kazin, Alfred: - Alfred Kazin (1915-1998) was Distinguished Professor of English, Emeritus, at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and author and editor of many books, including A Writer's America: Landscape in American Literature.Ferguson, Alfred R.: - Alfred R. Ferguson (1915-1974) was Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston.