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

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal:	Habich, Robert D., 1951-
Collectivité auteur:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	Électronique eBook
Langue:	anglais
Publié:	Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2011.
Sujets:	Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882 > Criticism and interpretation > History. Authors, American > Biography > History and criticism. American prose literature > History and criticism. Biography as a literary form. Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table des matières:

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.