The seed of the world: Emerson’s transatlantic transcendentalist first philosophy
(2024)
Book Chapter
Greenham, D. (2024). The seed of the world: Emerson’s transatlantic transcendentalist first philosophy. In C. Hanlon (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson (86-104). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192894373.013.30
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.