Book ID: CBB000102052

Emerson Dilemma: Essays on Emerson and Social Reform (2001)

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Garvey, Gregory T. (Editor)


University of Georgia Press


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: xxviii + 264 pp., illus., bibl., index
Language: English

Description Contents: Pt. 1. Emerson's other inner life: Susan L. Roberson: Reform and the interior landscape: Mapping Emerson's political sermons; T. Gregory Garvey: Emerson's political spirit and the problem of language; Linck C. Johnson: Emerson, Thoreau's arrest, and the trials of American manhood. Pt. 2. Emerson and women's rights: Phyllis Cole: Pain and protest in the Emerson family; Armida Gilbert: “Pierced by the thorns of reform”: Emerson on Womanhood; Jeffrey A. Steele: The limits of political sympathy: Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and woman's rights. Pt. 3. Transitions in antislavery: Michael Strysick: Emerson, slavery, and the evolution of the principle of self-reliance; Len Gougeon; John Emerson: Emerson's abolition conversion; Harold K. Bush: Brown, and “Doing the word”: The enactment of political religion at Harpers Ferry, 1859. Pt. 4. Emerson's thought and the public sphere: David M. Robinson: Emerson's “American civilization”: Emancipation and the national destiny; Stephen L. Esquith: Power, poise, and place: Toward an Emersonian theory of democratic citizenship.


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Authors & Contributors
Barron, Stephanie Kay
Belmonte, Miguel Angel
Branch, Michael P.
Gondermann, Thomas
Goudie, Andrea K.
Hilde, Thomas C.
Journals
American Quarterly
History of Political Thought
History of the Human Sciences
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
University of Minnesota
University of Virginia
Texas A&M University
Aracne
Ashgate
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Concepts
Philosophy and politics
Philosophy
Political science
Science and literature
Slavery
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People
Thoreau, Henry David
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Melville, Herman
Spencer, Herbert
Bartram, William
Fuller, Margaret
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19th century
18th century
20th century
20th century, early
17th century
Medieval
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