Building their own Waldos [[electronic resource] ] : Emerson's first biographers and the politics of life-writing in the Gilded Age / / by Robert D. Habich

• Autore: Habich Robert D. <1951->
• Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Disciplina: 814/.3; B
• Soggetto topico: Authors, American - Biography - History and criticism; American prose literature - History and criticism; Biography as a literary form
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Building their own Waldos
• ISBN: 1-58729-963-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910460221803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II