Strains of Eloquence Emerson and His Sermons

Name: Strains of Eloquence Emerson and His Sermons
Price: 10.37 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780271006604

ISBN-10: 0271006609

ISBN-13: 9780271006604

Edition: 1989

Authors: Wesley T. Mott

List price: $41.25

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

4 new & used from $10.37

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

The sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson were central to his emergence as thinker and writer. This is the first extended study of the formative role of these long-neglected documents. Wesley Mott explores major topics and issues in Emerson scholarship: his vocational self-image; the significance and meaning of such quintessentially Emersonian concepts as self-reliance, the over-soul, and compensation; his sense of language his vision of America; his relation to Puritanism.Emerson's aphorisms, taken out of context, have enabled readers of every stamp to enlist him in their cause. Reformers, on the one hand, have claimed him as a prophet of social change, while, on the other hand, Henry Ford and…

Book details

List price: $41.25
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 10/1/1990
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English