Ralph Waldo Emerson : : The Major Prose / / Ralph Waldo Emerson; ed. by Joel Myerson, Ronald A. Bosco.

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• VerfasserIn: Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
• HerausgeberIn: Bosco, Ronald A.,; Myerson, Joel,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (600 p.) :; 1 line illustration

Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson have gathered Emerson’s most memorable prose published under his direct supervision, enhanced by additional writings. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Prose is the only single-volume anthology that presents the full range of Emerson’s written and spoken prose—sermons,...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Textual Policies
• Sermon CLXII [“The Lord’s Supper”] (1832)
• The Uses of Natural History (1833–1835)
• Nature (1836)
• Humanity of Science (1836, 1847–1848)
• The American Scholar (1837)
• The Divinity School Address (1838)
• Self-Reliance (1841)
• Circles (1841)
• The Transcendentalist (1842, 1849)
• New England: Genius, Manners, and Customs (1843–1844)
• The Poet (1844)
• Experience (1844)
• Nominalist and Realist (1844)
• An Address Delivered in the Court-House in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844, on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies
• England (1848–1852)
• Uses of Great Men (1850)
• The Anglo-American (1852–1855)
• American Slavery (1855)
• Address at the Woman’s Rights Convention (1855)
• Mr. R. W. Emerson’s Remarks at the Kansas Relief Meeting in Cambridge (1856)
• The Natural Method of Mental Philosophy (1858)
• Fate (1860)
• American Civilization (1862)
• Thoreau (1862)
• The President’s Proclamation (1862)
• The Scholar (1863)
• Character (1866)
• Works and Days (1870)
• Credits
• Index