LEADER 02900nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910826358403321 005 20240516113013.0 010 $a1-58729-963-1 035 $a(CKB)2670000000081169 035 $a(EBL)843308 035 $a(OCoLC)719387781 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000467432 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11314233 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000467432 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10489184 035 $a(PQKB)11486920 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC843308 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12532 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL843308 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10456431 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000081169 100 $a20100819d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBuilding their own Waldos $eEmerson's first biographers and the politics of life-writing in the Gilded Age /$fby Robert D. Habich 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (217 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-58729-962-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aBy 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. 606 $aAuthors, American$xBiography$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican prose literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBiography as a literary form 615 0$aAuthors, American$xBiography$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican prose literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBiography as a literary form. 676 $a814/.3 676 $aB 676 $a814.3 700 $aHabich$b Robert D.$f1951-$01709702 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826358403321 996 $aBuilding their own Waldos$94099680 997 $aUNINA