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The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1843-47 v. 9 (Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson): Volume IX
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Description for The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1843-47 v. 9 (Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson): Volume IX
Hardcover. Num Pages: 532 pages, 4 halftones. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1057.
The pages of these five journals covering the years 1843 to 1847 are filled with Ralph Waldo Emerson’s struggle to formulate the true attitude of the scholar to the vexing question of public involvement. Pulled between his belief that a disinterested independence was a requisite for the writer and the public demands heaped upon him as a leading intellectual figure, he notes to himself that he “pounds…tediously” on the “exemption of the writer from all secular works.”
Although Emerson concluded his editorship of The Dial in 1844, he was continually beset by calls for public service, most of which ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1971
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
532
Condition
New
Number of Pages
532
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674484719
SKU
V9780674484719
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99-1
About Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph H. Orth is Professor of English at the University of Vermont. Alfred R. Ferguson (1915–1974) was Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
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