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Corresponding natures: Ralph Waldo Emerson's letters

Greenham, David

Authors

David Greenham David.Greenham@uwe.ac.uk
School Director (Research & Enterprise) / Professor



Contributors

Celeste Marie-Bernier
Editor

Matthew Pethers
Editor

Judie Newman
Editor

Abstract

This article explores the significance of letter writing in the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson's letters were sent to family members and friends and ranged across his long life. What this chapter addresses is, firstly, the emergence of key Emerson ideas in the letters (e.g., reason and understanding), and secondly the ways in which he would use the letter form to explore his correspondent's possibilities, drawing out their best potentials, always seeing them a particular reflection of a larger whole.

Publication Date Feb 15, 2016
Deposit Date Apr 1, 2016
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Pages 319-331
Series Title Edinburgh Companions to Literature
Book Title Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing
ISBN ;
Keywords Ralph Waldo Emerson, American letter writing, nineteenth-century culture, intellectual history, Caroline Sturgis, transcendentalism, New England culture, American renaissance
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/919316
Publisher URL http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748692927
Contract Date Apr 1, 2016


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