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The Emerson brothers :

(Number (ISBN

0195140362

(Number (ISBN

0195349857

(Number (ISBN

1280481420

(Number (ISBN

1423760883

(Number (ISBN

1602569592

(Number (ISBN

9780195140361

(Number (ISBN

9780195349856

(Number (ISBN

9781280481420

(Number (ISBN

9781423760887

(Number (ISBN

9781602569591

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b800783

Title Proper

The Emerson brothers :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a fraternal biography in letters /

First Statement of Responsibility

Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2006.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xxv, 416 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations, portraits

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-402) and index.

Text of Note

"What poems are many private lives": the Emerson brothers -- William in Germany -- Edward and Charles -- Aunt Mary and the brothers Emerson -- Charles and Elizabeth -- William and Waldo: finances and family.

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Text of Note

"The Emerson Brothers: A Fraternal Biography in Letters" is a narrative and epistolary biography based upon the lifelong correspondence exchanged among the four Emerson brothers: Charles Chauncy, Edward Bliss, Ralph Waldo, and William Emerson, as well as Charles' 181 letters to his fiance Elizabeth Hoar (one of the few extended series of courtship letters surviving from this period) and 86 letters from the brothers to their paternal aunt Mary Moody Emerson in which they discuss their moral and theological upbringing and views. Often composed as "round robin" exchanges among and between the brothers, the Emerson brothers' correspondence is the last great untapped body of personal writings remaining in manuscript from within the Emerson family.; These letters illuminate aspects of Waldo's character and personal and intellectual development that, lacking access to the letters, even his most sympathetic biographers and critics have thus far failed to appreciate fully; reveal that all of the brothers were invigorated by their shared sense of origin as well as by a sense of duty to improve upon their ancestors' literary and intellectual work; shine new light on Waldo's debt to William for his first serious encounters with German Higher Criticism in the mid 1820s; present new evidence about the devastation Waldo felt at the death in 1831 of his first wife, a correction to Waldo's own sometimes under-recorded sense of grief at her passing; demonstrate that Waldo's desire for financial security for himself, his mother, and his brothers was at least as powerful a motivation behind his resignation from Boston's Second Church in 1832 as were Ellen's death and his reservations about the Lord's Supper.; They mark Waldo's self-conscious and steady progress away from the forms of institutionalized religion toward the career of lecturer, essayist, poet, and social reformer which earned him his reputation as a principal architect of American culture.

Title

Emerson brothers.

International Standard Book Number

0195140362

Emerson family.

Emerson, Charles Chauncy,1808-1836.

Emerson, Edward Bliss,1805-1834.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,1803-1882

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,1803-1882-- Family.

Emerson, William,1801-1868.

Emerson family.

Emerson, Charles Chauncy,1808-1836.

Emerson, Edward Bliss,1805-1834.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,1803-1882.

Emerson, William,1801-1868.

Authors, American-- 19th century-- Family relationships.

Authors, American-- 19th century, Correspondence.

Brothers-- United States, Correspondence.

Authors, American-- Family relationships.

Authors, American.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Literary.

Brothers.

Families.

LITERARY COLLECTIONS-- Essays.

United States.

7

BIO-- 007000

GBC

LCO-- 010000

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

System Code

Bosco, Ronald A.

Myerson, Joel.

Date of Transaction

20201207130827.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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