Building their own Waldos : Emerson's first biographers and the politics of life-writing in the Gilded Age / / by Robert D. Habich.
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Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | xxviii, 186 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: building their own Waldos
- A genre in transition: biography in the 1880s
- An act of wholesome and pure-hearted admiration: Emerson's first biographer, George Willis Cooke
- Biographers and the pornographer: Conway, Ireland, and "Emerson and his friends"
- Diagnosing the gentle iconoclast: Dr. Holmes on Emerson
- Authorizing Emerson's biography: Cabot and/or Edward Emerson
- Shelf life: the legacy of Emerson's first biographies.