Understanding Emerson: The American Scholar and His Struggle for Self-Reliance

by Kenneth S. Sacks and Jane Wong

Book Overview

A seminal figure in American literature and philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson is considered the apostle of self-reliance, fully alive within his ideas and disarmingly confident about his innermost thoughts. Yet the circumstances around "The American Scholar" oration--his first great public address and the most celebrated talk in American academic history--suggest a different Emerson. In Understanding Emerson, Kenneth Sacks draws on a wealth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691099820
• ISBN13: 9780691099828
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.6"