Consciousness and Culture: Emerson and Thoreau Reviewed

by Joel Porte

Emerson and Thoreau are the most celebrated odd couple of nineteenth-century American literature. Appearing to play the roles of benign mentor and eager disciple, they can also be seen as bitter rivals: America's foremost literary statesman, protective of his reputation, and an ambitious and sometimes refractory prot g . The truth, Joel Porte maintains, is that Emerson and Thoreau were complementary literary geniuses, mutually inspiring and inspired.
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300104464
• ISBN13: 9780300104462
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.6"