An Uneasy Solitude : : Individual and Society in the Work of Ralph Waldo Emerson / / Maurice Gonnaud.
This subtle intellectual biography juxtaposes Ralph Waldo Emerson's revolutionary spiritual thinking with his elitist ideas of race and property--a contrast so sharp as to make his personality seem almost incoherent." Writing in (he great modern tradition of French anglicisles, Maurice Gon...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1987 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (508 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Translator's Preface
- Author's Preface to the French Edition
- Abbreviations
- PART I. The Uncertainties of a Vocation
- 1. The Family Milieu
- 2. Harvard: An Apprenticeship in Solitude
- 3. The Schoolteacher Feels His Way
- 4. The Ministry, or, An Attempt at the Safe Middle Way
- PART II. The Discovery and Glorification of the Self
- 5. The Road to Concord
- 6. Prophecies and Epiphany
- 7. Organizing Victory
- 8. From Affirmation to Challenge
- PART III. From Ideal Democracy to Natural Aristocracy
- 9. Malaise
- 10. Exploring the Problems
- 11. Equilibrium Regained
- PART IV. Individual and Citizen
- 12. The Thorn in the Flesh
- 13. A Surrogate Optimism
- 14. The Last Struggle
- Bibliography of Emerson's Writings
- Index