Emerson's Fall: A New Interpretation of the Major EssaysProvides background information about the biographical, rhetorical, cultural, and intellectual foundations of the essays and discusses Emerson's beliefs about the world's imperfections |
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Contents
Nature | 22 |
to the Death of Charles | 41 |
Portable Property | 85 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Emerson's Fall: A New Interpretation of the Major Essays |
| Author | B. L. Packer |
| Contributor | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | Continuum, 1982 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0826401910, 9780826401915 |
| Length | 244 pages |
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