Mary Moody Emerson and the origins of transcendentalism: a family history
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1. Verfasser: Cole, Phyllis (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 1998
Schriftenreihe:Oxford University Press on-line
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-359) and index
Emerson Genealogies; Introduction; THE FAMILY; A WOMAN'S LIFE; THE MOVEMENT; LAST THINGS; Notes; Index
Mary Moody Emerson has long been a New England legend, the "eccentric Calvinist aunt" of Ralph Waldo Emerson, wearing a death-shroud as her daily garment. This exciting new study, based on the first reading of all her known letters and diaries, reveals a complex human voice and powerful forerunner of American Transcendentalism. From the years of her famous nephew's infancy, in both private and published writings, she celebrated independence, solitude in nature, and inward communion with God. Mary Moody Emerson inherited both resources and constraints from her family, a lineage of Massachusetts
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 370 pages)
ISBN:0195039491
058532686X
1601295960
9780195039498
9780585326863
9781601295965

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