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The seed of the world: Emerson’s transatlantic transcendentalist first philosophy (2024)
Book Chapter

Taking seriously the ‘deep time’ of American literature and the current importance of the Anthropocene, this chapter investigates an often overlooked transatlantic origin for Emerson’s conceptualisation of nature, which I also argue is a crucial mark... Read More about The seed of the world: Emerson’s transatlantic transcendentalist first philosophy.

Emerson's Metaphors (2023)
Book

Emerson's Metaphors provides a radical reading of Ralph Waldo Emerson's figurative language, demonstrating that Emerson's metaphors should be understood as ways of thinking. Covering the full range of Emerson's writings, this book offers a reinterpre... Read More about Emerson's Metaphors.

Close Reading: Il Piacere Della Lettura (2023)
Book

Close reading is the most essential skill that literature students continue to develop across the full length of their studies. This book is the ideal guide to the practice, providing a methodology that can be used for poetry, novels, drama, and beyo... Read More about Close Reading: Il Piacere Della Lettura.

'Some Versions of Pastoral' and Related Writings by William Empson (2023)
Journal Article

Close reading: The basics (2018)
Book

© 2019 David Greenham. All rights reserved. Close reading is the most essential skill that literature students continue to develop across the full length of their studies. This book is the ideal guide to the practice, providing a methodology that can... Read More about Close reading: The basics.

The work of metaphor: Ralph waldo emerson's “circles” and conceptual metaphor theory (2018)
Journal Article

There has yet to be a systematic study of Emerson’s use of metaphor. This essay engages with Emerson ‘Circles’ and Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) in an effort to remedy that lack, and also to inaugurate a reassessment of the work undertaken by meta... Read More about The work of metaphor: Ralph waldo emerson's “circles” and conceptual metaphor theory.

Emerson's "Apposite Metaphors" and the grounds of creativity (2016)
Journal Article

This article offers an original interpretation of Emerson's theory of metaphor as a principle of creation as it appears in his lectures and journal of the 1820s and 1830s, the essay 'Nature' (1836), and as it develops into his theory of symbolism in... Read More about Emerson's "Apposite Metaphors" and the grounds of creativity.

An Atlantic Adam: Emerson and the origins of United States literature (2016)
Book Chapter

Emerson has long been held to be the well-spring of American literary originality. In this chapter I outline Emerson's own ideas of originality, detailing in particular how they relate to his New England context and his reading of model English Renai... Read More about An Atlantic Adam: Emerson and the origins of United States literature.

Corresponding natures: Ralph Waldo Emerson's letters (2016)
Book Chapter

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 Emer... Read More about Corresponding natures: Ralph Waldo Emerson's letters.

LITERATURE - Ralph Waldo Emerson (2016)
Digital Artefact

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Emerson, creativity and criticism (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The paper was a keynote. The principal argument was that Ralph Waldo Emerson's unique take on metaphor as the most significant creative literary act could be understood as a key enabler for the development of US literature, especially the symbolism t... Read More about Emerson, creativity and criticism.

‘‘Altars to the beautiful necessity’’: The significance of F. W. J. Schelling’s ‘‘philosophical inquiries in the nature of human freedom’’ in the development of Ralph Waldo emerson’s concept of fate (2015)
Journal Article

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s 1860 essay “Fate” has long been recognised as one of his most important essays. This paper is the first to examine the significance for Emerson of his reading of F. W. J. Shelling’s “Inquiry into the Nature of Human Freedom” usi... Read More about ‘‘Altars to the beautiful necessity’’: The significance of F. W. J. Schelling’s ‘‘philosophical inquiries in the nature of human freedom’’ in the development of Ralph Waldo emerson’s concept of fate.

Afterword: Literature and philosophy 1850–1910: The view from New England (2012)
Journal Article

In this afterword I look at the period 1850–1910 from a Transatlantic perspective, focusing on key New England writers whose work spans the disciplines of philosophy and literature: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, Herman Me... Read More about Afterword: Literature and philosophy 1850–1910: The view from New England.

Emerson's transatlantic romanticism (2012)
Book

© David Greenham 2012. All rights reserved. This book provides an original account of Emerson's creative debts to the British and European Romantics, including Coleridge and Carlyle, firmly locating them in his New England context. Moreover this book... Read More about Emerson's transatlantic romanticism.

Emerson (2011)
Book Chapter

Nature (2011)
Book Chapter

© Cambridge University Press 2014. To begin to understand what the term nature meant to the intellectual culture of Emerson’s time it is perhaps best to start with William Ellery Channing, a prominent New England Unitarian of the 1820s and 1830s. In... Read More about Nature.

The skeptical deduction: Reading Kant and Cavell in Emerson's "Self-Reliance" (2007)
Journal Article

The Resurrection of the Body: The Work of Norman O. Brown (2006)
Book

The first full length study of the work of philosopher, philologist and Freudian visionary Norman O. Brown.

The concept of irony: Jane Austen's Emma and Philip Roth's Sabbath's Theatre (2005)
Journal Article

The poetry of origins and the origins of poetry: Norman O. Brown's Giambattista Vico and James Joyce (2005)
Journal Article