The Emerson dilemma : essays on Emerson and social reform
This text juxtaposes the traditional image of Emerson the trancendentalist with the image of Emerson the reformer. It highlights the dilemma between his philosophical attraction to solitary contemplation and the demands of activism compelled by his own writings.
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xxviii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780820322414, 0820322415
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pt. 1. Emerson's other inner life. Reform and the interior landscape: mapping Emerson's political sermons / Susan L. Roberson ; Emerson's political spirit and the problem of language / T. Gregory Garvey ; Emerson, Thoreau's arrest, and the trials of American manhood / Linck C. Johnson
pt. 2. Emerson and women's rights. Pain and protest in the Emerson family / Phyllis Cole ; "Pierced by the thorns of reform": Emerson on Womanhood / Armida Gilbert ; The limits of political sympathy: Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and woman's rights / Jeffrey A. Steele
pt. 3. Transitions in antislavery. Emerson, slavery, and the evolution of the principle of self-reliance / Michael Strysick ; Emerson's abolition conversion / Len Gougeon ; Emerson, John Brown, and "Doing the word": the enactment of political religion at Harpers Ferry, 1859 / Harold K. Bush
pt. 4. Emerson's thought and the public sphere. Emerson's "American civilization": emancipation and the national destiny / David M. Robinson ; Power, poise, and place: toward an Emersonian theory of democratic citizenship / Stephen L. Esquith