Building their own Waldos Emerson's first biographers and the politics of life-writing in the Gilded Age /

Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Habich, Robert D., 1951-
Awdur Corfforaethol: ebrary, Inc
Fformat: Electronig eLyfr
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2011.
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Mynediad Ar-lein:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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.