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Glad to the brink of fear : a portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson /

More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed prophet of self-reliance has obscured a much more complicated figure, who spent a lifetime wrestling with injustice, philosophy, art, desire an...

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Main Author:	Marcus, James, 1959- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2024].
Subjects:	Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882 > Criticism and interpretation. Authors, American > 19th century > Biography. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Transcendentalism.

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