Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson 1st Edition

Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780691254333,0691254338,9780691254357, 0691254354

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0691254354
• ISBN-13: 9780691254357
• Author: James Marcus

An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readers More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed prophet of self-reliance has obscured a much more complicated figure who spent a lifetime wrestling with injustice, philosophy, art, desire, and suffering.

Table contents:

1. Finding a Voice
2. The Lives of Others
3. One First Love
4. The Shining Apparition
5. Ruin and Resurrection
6. A Conjunction of Two Planets
7. The Age of the First Person Singular
8. Beautiful Enemies
9. The Costly Price of Sons and Lovers
10. The Metaphysician on Tour
11. Visit to a Cold Island
12. Knocking Down the Hydra
13. Higher Laws
14. An Inspection of the Wreck
15. Terminus
16. Circles

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