Building their own Waldos
Subtitle: Emerson's first biographers and the politics of life-writing in the Gilded Age
By: by Robert D. Habich
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781587299629; 9781587299636
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: building their own Waldos; title: A genre in transition: biography in the 1880s; title: An act of wholesome and pure-hearted admiration: Emerson's first biographer, George Willis Cooke; title: Biographers and the pornographer: Conway, Ireland, and "Emerson and his friends"; title: Diagnosing the gentle iconoclast: Dr. Holmes on Emerson; title: Authorizing Emerson's biography: Cabot and/or Edward Emerson; title: Shelf life: the legacy of Emerson's first biographies.