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An Uneasy Solitude: Individual and Society in the Work of Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
An Uneasy Solitude: Individual and Society in the Work of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Contributors:
By (Author) Maurice Gonnaud
Translated by Lawrence Rosenwald
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
28th June 2016
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Literary essays
Literary studies: general
Dewey:
814.3
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
508
Dimensions:
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
Weight:
1077g
Description
This subtle intellectual biography juxtaposes Ralph Waldo Emerson's revolutionary spiritual thinking with his elitist ideas of race and property--a contrast so sharp as to make his personality seem almost incoherent." Writing in (he great modern tradition of French anglicisles, Maurice Gonnaud compares Emerson's taste for solitude and the lyric ard
