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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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2024].
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Table of Contents:
- Finding a voice
- The lives of others
- One first love
- The shining apparition
- Ruin and resurrection
- A conjunction of two planets
- The age of the first person singular
- Beautiful enemies
- The costly price of sons and lovers
- The metaphysician on tour
- Visit to a cold island
- Knocking down the hydra
- Higher laws
- An inspection of the wreck
- Terminus
- Circles.