02901nam 2200589 a 450 991082635840332120240516113013.01-58729-963-1(CKB)2670000000081169(EBL)843308(OCoLC)719387781(SSID)ssj0000467432(PQKBManifestationID)11314233(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000467432(PQKBWorkID)10489184(PQKB)11486920(MiAaPQ)EBC843308(MdBmJHUP)muse12532(Au-PeEL)EBL843308(CaPaEBR)ebr10456431(EXLCZ)99267000000008116920100819d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBuilding their own Waldos[electronic resource] Emerson's first biographers and the politics of life-writing in the Gilded Age /by Robert D. Habich1st ed.Iowa City University of Iowa Press20111 online resource (217 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-58729-962-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: building their own Waldos -- A genre in transition: biography in the 1880s -- An act of wholesome and pure-hearted admiration: Emerson's first biographer, George Willis Cooke -- Biographers and the pornographer: Conway, Ireland, and "Emerson and his friends" -- Diagnosing the gentle iconoclast: Dr. Holmes on Emerson -- Authorizing Emerson's biography: Cabot and/or Edward Emerson -- Shelf life: the legacy of Emerson's first biographies.By the end of the nineteenth century, Ralph Waldo Emerson was well on his way to becoming the "Wisest American" and the "Sage of Concord," a literary celebrity and a national icon. With that fame came what Robert Habich describes as a blandly sanctified version of Emerson held widely by the reading public. Building Their Own Waldos sets out to understand the dilemma faced by Emerson's early biographers: how to represent a figure whose subversive individualism had been eclipsed by his celebrity, making him less a representative of his age than a caricature of it.Authors, AmericanBiographyHistory and criticismAmerican prose literatureHistory and criticismBiography as a literary formAuthors, AmericanBiographyHistory and criticism.American prose literatureHistory and criticism.Biography as a literary form.814/.3BHabich Robert D.1951-1709702MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826358403321Building their own Waldos4099680UNINA