Mary Moody Emerson and the origins of transcendentalism : a family history / / Phyllis Cole

• Record Nr.: UNISA996247990403316
• Autore: Cole Phyllis <1944->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1998; ©1998
• ISBN: 0-19-515200-X; 1-280-43938-6; 0-19-536502-X; 1-60129-596-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (401 p.)
• Disciplina: 974.03; 974.03092
• Soggetti: Intellectuals - New England; Women intellectuals - New England; Transcendentalism; New England Intellectual life 19th century; United States Intellectual life 1783-1865
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-359) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Emerson Genealogies; Introduction; THE FAMILY; A WOMAN'S LIFE; THE MOVEMENT; LAST THINGS; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Mary Moody Emerson has long been a New England legend, the ""eccentric Calvinist aunt"" of Ralph Waldo Emerson, wearing a death-shroud as her daily garment. This exciting new study, based on the first reading of all her known letters and diaries, reveals a complex human voice and powerful forerunner of American Transcendentalism. From the years of her famous nephew's infancy, in both private and published writings, she celebrated independence, solitude in nature, and inward communion with God. Mary Moody Emerson inherited both resources and constraints from her family, a lineage of Massachuset