The Critical Reception of Emerson: Unsettling All Things

by Sarah Ann Wider

A history of the most important scholarly criticism of Emerson from his time down to the present.

Since the 1820s, Ralph Waldo Emerson has provoked an unsettled response from his readers and contentiousness among critics. Critics still contest Emerson's position: Was he poet or philosopher? Did he liberate American literatureor narrow it to a one-dimensional idea? Is his signature concept of self-reliance the most profound contribution to democratic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571131663
• ISBN13: 9781571131669
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"