Emerson's Emergence: Self and Society in the Transformation of New England, 1800-1845

by Mary Kupiec Cayton

Book Overview

As the culture of commercial capitalism came to dominate nineteenth-century New England, it changed people's ideas about how the world functioned, the nature of their work, their relationships to one another, and even the way they conceived of themselves as separate individuals. Drawing on the work of the last twenty years in New England social history, Mary Cayton argues that Ralph Waldo Emerson's work and career, when seen in the context of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080784392X
• ISBN13: 9780807843925
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"