Building their own Waldos Emerson's first biographers and the politics of life-writing in the Gilded Age /
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2011.
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.