Tag: Emerson

Free Download Mary Kupiec Cayton, "Emerson’s Emergence: Self and Society in the Transformation of New England, 1800-1845"
English | 1992 | ISBN: 080784392X, 0807818704 | EPUB | pages: 322 | 3.3 mb
As the culture of commercial capitalism came to dominate nineteenth-century New England, it changed people’s ideas about how the world functioned, the nature of their work, their relationships to one another, and even the way they conceived of themselves as separate individuals. Drawing on the work of the last twenty years in New England social history, Mary Cayton argues that Ralph Waldo Emerson’s work and career, when seen in the context of the momentous changes in the culture and economics of the region, reveal many of the tensions and contradictions inherent in the new capitalist social order. In exploring the genesis of liberal humanism as a calling in the United States, this case study implicitly poses questions about its assumptions, its aspirations, and its failings.

Free Download David Greenham, "Emerson’s Metaphors"
English | ISBN: 1666901571 | 2023 | 242 pages | EPUB, PDF | 519 KB + 2 MB
Emerson’s Metaphors is a fundamental reinterpretation of the major American writer Ralph Waldo Emerson and an interdisciplinary intervention in literary criticism. This book draws on the methods and conclusions of the paradigm shifting Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), which recognizes that metaphor is a cognitive form rather than a rhetorical or ornamental feature. Closely reading Emerson’s journals, lectures and reassessing the major essays, Emerson’s Metaphors demonstrates that Emerson’s prose ‘thinks’ through its figurative language, enabling the vital symbolic reconceptualizations of nature, man and God that would prove so crucial for the emergence of American literature. This monograph does not just have implications for Emerson scholarship, but as the first full-length study of a canonical writer to use CMT, it provides a model for the interpretation of all literary works.

Free Download Martin Kevorkian, "Writing beyond Prophecy: Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville after the American Renaissance"
English | 2013 | pages: 280 | ISBN: 0807147605 | EPUB | 2,4 mb
Writing beyond Prophecy offers a new interpretation of the American Renaissance by drawing attention to a cluster of later, rarely studied works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. Identifying a line of writing from Emerson’s Conduct of Life to Hawthorne’s posthumously published Elixir of Life manuscript to Melville’s Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, Martin Kevorkian demonstrates how these authors wrestled with their vocational calling.