Representative Men: Seven Lectures - Brossura

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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ISBN 10: 0674761057 ISBN 13: 9780674761056

Casa editrice: Belknap Pr, 1996

Riassunto

"At first reading, Representative Men seems the most alien of Emerson's books. First published in 1850 (having taken form over the five preceding years as a series of lectures intended as 'winter evening entertainments'), it was inspired by the romantic belief that there exists a 'general mind' that expresses itself with special intensity through certain individual lives. It was an appreciation of genius as a quality distributed to the few for the benefit of the many. When, according to Longfellow, Emerson began to speak on these themes in Boston in 1845, the Odeon theater was jammed with 'old men and young, bald heads and flowing transcendental locks, matrons and maidens, misanthropists and lovers.' The crowds were rapt and grateful, as were their counterparts two years later in England where the lecture series continued...

This edition of Representative Men is reproduced from the fourth volume of The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, text established by Douglas Emory Wilson.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Andrew Delbanco is Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. Among his many publications are The Puritan Ordeal and The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope (both from Harvard).

Product Description:

The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Vol IV

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Belknap Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0674761057
• ISBN 13: 9780674761056
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 174
• Redattore: Wilson Douglas Emory