Building their own Waldos : Emerson's first biographers and the politics of life-writing in the Gilded Age / / by Robert D. Habich
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| Autore: |
Habich Robert D. <1951->
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| Titolo: |
Building their own Waldos : Emerson's first biographers and the politics of life-writing in the Gilded Age / / by Robert D. Habich
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| Pubblicazione: | Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 814/.3 |
| B | |
| 814.3 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Authors, American - Biography - History and criticism |
| American prose literature - History and criticism | |
| Biography as a literary form | |
| 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.: | 9910826358403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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