02742nam 2200673 450 99624799040331620170815123106.00-19-515200-X1-280-43938-60-19-536502-X1-60129-596-02027/heb30568(CKB)111004366525764(EBL)253397(OCoLC)45844528(SSID)ssj0000198460(PQKBManifestationID)11180583(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000198460(PQKBWorkID)10170778(PQKB)11437026(MiAaPQ)EBC253397(MiAaPQ)EBC4700720(dli)HEB30568(MiU)MIU01000000000000012879920(EXLCZ)9911100436652576420161012h19981998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMary Moody Emerson and the origins of transcendentalism a family history /Phyllis ColeNew York, New York ;Oxford, [England] :Oxford University Press,1998.©19981 online resource (401 p.)Includes index.0-585-32686-X 0-19-503949-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-359) and index.Contents; Emerson Genealogies; Introduction; THE FAMILY; A WOMAN'S LIFE; THE MOVEMENT; LAST THINGS; Notes; IndexMary 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 MassachusetIntellectualsNew EnglandBiographyWomen intellectualsNew EnglandBiographyTranscendentalismNew EnglandIntellectual life19th centuryUnited StatesIntellectual life1783-1865IntellectualsWomen intellectualsTranscendentalism.974.03974.03092Cole Phyllis1944-1012896MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996247990403316Mary Moody Emerson and the origins of transcendentalism2353317UNISA