Building their own Waldos : Emerson's first biographers and the politics of life-writing in the Gilded Age /
Habich, Robert D.,1951-
Iowa City, Iowa : University of Iowa Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Authors, American
American prose literature
Biography as a literary form.