Emerson on TranscendentalismBloomsbury Academic, 1986 M09 1 - 128 pages The full texts of four seminal works by Emerson are presented in this volume: 'Nature, ' 'The American Scholar, ' 'The Divinity School Address, ' and 'The Transcendentalist.' Edward Ericson assesses that impact in his helpful introduction and evaluates anew Emerson's continuing influence on American culture in our century. |
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The Symbolic Earth: Discourse and Our Creation of the Environment James Gerard Cantrill No preview available - 1996 |