Emerson Among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait - Hardcover

Baker, Carlos

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067086675X ISBN 13: 9780670866755

Publisher: Viking, 1996

Synopsis

An exhaustively researched, richly detailed biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson and the writers of the American Renaissance--including Hawthorne and Thoreau--traces their relationships, their daily lives, and the era in which they lived. National ad/promo.

About this title

Synopsis:

The story of the American Renaissance told through Emerson and his eccentric circle of friends, notably Hawthorn, Thoreau, Fuller and Alcott. The book begins with Emerson's decision to leave the ministry and ends with his increasing loss of mental powers. The narrative interweaves the events of Emerson's life with those of his extended family and friends, showing the ways in which his thought and life were affected by these relationships and how he in turn affected others. Through his connections with these people, it shows the unfolding of his relgious, literary, and political ideas, his changing view of nature, man, and God, to show how friends reflected and diverged or misrepresented his teachings.

About the Author:

Carlos Baker was a distinguished scholar and literary critic at Princeton University for more than forty years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 067086675X
• ISBN 13: 9780670866755
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 640