Emerson for the twenty-first century
By: [edited by] Barry Tharaud.
Contributors: Tharaud, Barry.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780874130911
Subjects: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, -- 1803-1882 -- Criticism and interpretation; Emerson, Ralph Waldo, -- 1803-1882 -- Influence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Emerson, Europe, and beyond; title: Barry Tharaud, "Emerson, literary globalism, and the circularity of influence"; title: Stephen L. Tanner, "The theme of mind in Emerson's English traits"; title: T. S. McMillin, "Beauty meets beast: Emerson's English traits"; title: Wesley T. Mott, "A tale of three cities: Emerson, Louis-Philippe, and transatlantic uses of great men"; title: Susan Dunston, "East of Emerson"; title: Steven Adisasmito-Smith, "Transcendental brahmin: Emerson's 'hindu' sentiments"; title: Jan Stievermann, "'We want men who can open their eyes wider than to a nationality': Ralph Waldo Emerson's vision of an American world literature"; title: II. Emerson and science; title: Michael P. Branch, "Paths to nature: Emerson's early natural history lectures"; title: Branka Arsic, "Nocturnal outings: Emerson on dreams"; title: David M. Robinson, "British science, the London lectures, and Emerson's philosophical reorientation"; title: Laura Dassow Walls, "'Every truth tends to become a power': Emerson, Faraday, and the minding of matter"; title: III. Emerson thinking; title: Gayle L. Smith, "Emerson on nature and the rhetoric of thought"; title: David Larocca, "Seeing metaphors"; title: John Ronan, "Emerson's autobiographical philosophy"; title: John Michael, "Death, love, and Emerson's poetry"; title: George J. Stack and Mary Dimaria, "Emerson and postmodernism"; title: IV. Emerson and activism; title: David S. Reynolds, "Transcendentalism, transnationalism, and antislavery violence: Concord's embrace of John Brown"; title: Len Gougeon, "'Only justice satisfies all': Emerson's militant transcendentalism"; title: T. Gregory Garvey, "Simular man: Emerson and cosmopolitan identity"; title: Eduardo Cadava, "The guano of history".