Garvey, Gregory T. (Editor)
University of Georgia Press
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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