Understanding Emerson : : "The American Scholar" and His Struggle for Self-Reliance /

Understanding Emerson : : "The American Scholar" and His Struggle for Self-Reliance / / Kenneth S. Sacks.

A seminal figure in American literature and philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson is considered the apostle of self-reliance, fully alive within his ideas and disarmingly confident about his innermost thoughts. Yet the circumstances around "The American Scholar" oration--his first great public a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Sacks, Kenneth S.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
©2003
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (213 p.) :; 17 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PREFACE
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One “THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR”
  • Chapter Two AMERICA IN “THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR”
  • Chapter Three THE SCHOLAR TRANSFORMED
  • Chapter Four SELF-RELIANCE
  • Chapter Five FRIENDS
  • Chapter Six ALCOTT
  • Chapter Seven FOREVER THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR
  • Appendix TEXT OF “THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR”
  • ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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