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The Emerson museum : practical romanticism and the pursuit of the whole

In 1832, Emerson made his famous decision to pursue wholeness in his life and in his writing. The Emerson Museum shows how this undertaking transformed American literary practice by turning the legacy of European romanticism into a writing project answerable to American urgencies.
Print Book, English, 1997
Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass.), 1997
IX, 285 p. ill. 24 cm
9780674248847, 0674248848
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