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

Tallennettuna:
Päätekijä: Habich, Robert D., 1951-
Yhteisötekijä: ebrary, Inc
Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen E-kirja
Kieli:englanti
Julkaistu: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2011.
Aiheet:
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.
Linkit:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Sisällysluettelo:
  • 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.

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