Emerson and the Art of the Diary

by Lawrence Rosenwald

This first extended literary description and analysis of Emerson's journals, argues that they, and not his essays, are Emerson's masterpiece, constituting one of the greatest commentaries on nineteenth-century America by one of our most acute formal intelligences. First developing the critical methodology needed to examine the journal form, a genre long neglected by literary scholars, Rosenwald goes on to consider how Emerson the diarist found his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195053338
• ISBN13: 9780195053333
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.6"