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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Emerson and Eros: The Making of a Cultural Hero

Emerson and Eros: The Making of a Cultural Hero

Gougeon, Len

Paperback

Literary FiguresLiterary Criticism19th Century United States History

ISBN10: 0791470784
ISBN13: 9780791470787
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 2 2011
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Traces the spiritual, psychological, and intellectual evolution of one of America's most important cultural figures.

This critical biography traces the spiritual, psychological, and intellectual growth of one of America's foremost oracles and prophets, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). Beginning with his undergraduate career at Harvard and spanning the range of his adult life, the book examines the complex, often painful emotional journey inward that would eventually transform Emerson from an average Unitarian minister into one of the century's most formidable intellectual figures. By connecting Emerson's inner life with his outer life, Len Gougeon illustrates a virtually seamless relationship between Emerson's Transcendental philosophy and his later career as a social reformer, a rebel who sought to unsettle all things in an effort to redeem his society.

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