Emerson's Protégés: Mentoring and Marketing Transcendentalism's Future - Hardcover

Dowling, David O.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300197446 ISBN 13: 9780300197440

Verlag: YALE UNIV PR, 2014

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Reseña del editor:

In the late 1830s, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, lecturer, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement, publicly called for a radical nationwide vocational reinvention, and an idealistic group of collegians eagerly responded. Assuming the role of mentor, editor, and promoter, Emerson freely offered them his time, financial support, and anti-materialistic counsel, and profoundly shaped the careers of his young acolytes-including Henry David Thoreau, renowned journalist and women's rights advocate Margaret Fuller, and lesser-known literary figures such as Samuel Ward and reckless romantic poets Jones Very, Ellery Channing, and Charles Newcomb. Author David Dowling's history of the professional and personal relationships between Emerson and his proteges-a remarkable collaboration that alternately proved fruitful and destructive, tension-filled and liberating-is a fascinating true story of altruism, ego, influence, pettiness, genius, and the bold attempt to reshape the literary market of the mid-nineteenth century.

Biografía del autor:

David Dowling is assistant professor in the University of Iowa's School of Journalism and Mass Communication and author of several books, most recently Literary Partnerships and the Marketplace: Writers and Mentors in Nineteenth-Century America. He lives in Iowa City.

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• Verlag: YALE UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0300197446
• ISBN 13: 9780300197440
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352