Emerson and Thoreau
Subtitle: figures of friendship
By: edited by John T. Lysaker and William Rossi.
Contributors: Lysaker, John T.; Rossi, William John.
Series: American philosophy
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780253353887; 9780253221438
Subjects: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, -- 1803-1882 -- Friends and associates; Thoreau, Henry David, -- 1817-1862 -- Friends and associates; Friendship -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / John T. Lysaker and William Rossi; title: Transcendental contexts; title: Transcendental friendship : an oxymoron? / Lawrence Buell; title: Forgiving the giver : Emerson, Carlyle, Thoreau / Barbara Packer; title: Emerson's "friendship"; title: "In the golden hour of friendship" : transcendentalism and utopian desire / David M. Robinson; title: Emerson and skepticism : a reading of "friendship" / Russell B. Goodman; title: On the faces of emersonian "friendship" / John T. Lysaker; title: Thoreau's divergent melodies; title: "In dreams awake" : loss, transcendental friendship, and elegy / William Rossi; title: "Let him be to me a spirit" : paradoxes of true friendship in Emerson and Thoreau / Alan D. Hodder; title: Giving friendship for life; title: Giving friendship : the perichoresis of an all-embracing service / James Crosswhite; title: Leaving and bequeathing : friendship, moral perfectionism, and the gleam of light / Naoko Saito.