Emerson & Thoreau : figures of friendship /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Lysaker, John T., Rossi, William John
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2010]
Series:	American philosophy.
Subjects:	Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882 > Friends and associates. Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862 > Friends and associates. Friendship > United States > History > 19th century. Authors, American > 19th century > Biography.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / John T. Lysaker and William Rossi
Transcendental contexts. Transcendental friendship : an oxymoron? / Lawrence Buell
Forgiving the giver : Emerson, Carlyle, Thoreau / Barbara Packer
Emerson's "friendship". "In the golden hour of friendship" : transcendentalism and utopian desire / David M. Robinson
Emerson and skepticism : a reading of "friendship" / Russell B. Goodman
On the faces of Emersonian "friendship" / John T. Lysaker
Thoreau's divergent melodies. "In dreams awake" : loss, transcendental friendship, and elegy / William Rossi
"Let him be to me a spirit" : paradoxes of true friendship in Emerson and Thoreau / Alan D. Hodder
Giving friendship for life. Giving friendship : the perichoresis of an all-embracing service / James Crosswhite
Leaving and bequeathing : friendship, moral perfectionism, and the gleam of light / Naoko Saito.