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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marcus, James, 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.