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Emerson : the mind on fire / Robert D. Richardson, Jr. ; with a frontispiece by Barry Moser.

By: Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995.Description: xiii, 671 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0520088085
  • 9780520088085
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 814/.3 20
LOC classification:
  • PS1631 .R53 1995
Contents:
1. The student. Prologue -- Emerson at Harvard -- The march of mind -- Home and family -- The angel of death -- Scottish common sense -- The brothers Emerson -- The young writer -- The paradise of dictionaries and critics -- Mme. de Staël and the other Germany: divinity studies. 2. Divinity. Pray without ceasing -- The Prince of Lipona -- The balance beam -- Ellen Tucker -- Ordination and marriage: love and reason -- We are what we know -- Gerando and the first philosophy -- The wreck of earthly good -- In my study my faith is perfect -- Separation -- A terrible freedom. 3. The inner light. The American eye -- I will be a naturalist -- A white day in my years -- The instructed eye -- Mary Rotch: life without choice -- A living leaping logos -- A theory of animated nature -- Each and all -- Confluence.
4. Nature. Lidian -- The new Jerusalem -- The art of writing. Jakob Boehme -- Marriage and Concord -- Alcott and English literature -- All in each: writing Nature -- Nature: the laws of the world -- Nature: The apocalypse of the mind -- Margaret Fuller. 5. Go alone. The symposium -- The forging of the anchor -- We are not children of time -- The American scholar -- Casting off -- Human culture -- The peace principle and the Cherokee trail of tears -- Henry Thoreau -- Go alone: refuse the great models. 6. These flying days. New books, new problems -- Jones Very -- The attainable self -- Home and family -- Writing essays -- The heart has its jubilees -- Identity and metamorphosis -- Brook Farm and Margaret Fuller -- Pythagoras and Plotinus -- Osman's ring: a work of ecstasy -- The frightful hollows of space.
7. Children of fire. The dream of community -- Children of the fire -- Emerson's Dial -- New views -- The world -- The young American -- Emerson's emancipation address -- Essays on power -- Ex oriente lux. 8. The natural history of intellect. Representative men -- The lecturer -- Persia and poetry -- The new domestic order: poems -- The orchard keeper -- I shall never graduate -- England -- The natural history of intellect -- Chartism and revolution. 9. The science of liberty. Return: quarrel with Thoreau -- The Walden Sierras: quetelet -- Therienism and the Hegelian moment -- The west -- The matter of Margaret -- The tragic -- The conduct of life -- The Fugitive Slave Act -- The science of liberty.
10. Fame. My platoon -- Country walking and the sea -- English traits -- Fame -- Whitman -- The remedy at the hour of need -- The power and terror of thought. 11. Endings. Memory -- Civil war. Death of Thoreau -- Terminus -- May-day -- Harvard; California; Fire. -- Philae and Parnassus -- Fire at the core of the world.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The student. Prologue -- Emerson at Harvard -- The march of mind -- Home and family -- The angel of death -- Scottish common sense -- The brothers Emerson -- The young writer -- The paradise of dictionaries and critics -- Mme. de Staël and the other Germany: divinity studies. 2. Divinity. Pray without ceasing -- The Prince of Lipona -- The balance beam -- Ellen Tucker -- Ordination and marriage: love and reason -- We are what we know -- Gerando and the first philosophy -- The wreck of earthly good -- In my study my faith is perfect -- Separation -- A terrible freedom. 3. The inner light. The American eye -- I will be a naturalist -- A white day in my years -- The instructed eye -- Mary Rotch: life without choice -- A living leaping logos -- A theory of animated nature -- Each and all -- Confluence.

4. Nature. Lidian -- The new Jerusalem -- The art of writing. Jakob Boehme -- Marriage and Concord -- Alcott and English literature -- All in each: writing Nature -- Nature: the laws of the world -- Nature: The apocalypse of the mind -- Margaret Fuller. 5. Go alone. The symposium -- The forging of the anchor -- We are not children of time -- The American scholar -- Casting off -- Human culture -- The peace principle and the Cherokee trail of tears -- Henry Thoreau -- Go alone: refuse the great models. 6. These flying days. New books, new problems -- Jones Very -- The attainable self -- Home and family -- Writing essays -- The heart has its jubilees -- Identity and metamorphosis -- Brook Farm and Margaret Fuller -- Pythagoras and Plotinus -- Osman's ring: a work of ecstasy -- The frightful hollows of space.

7. Children of fire. The dream of community -- Children of the fire -- Emerson's Dial -- New views -- The world -- The young American -- Emerson's emancipation address -- Essays on power -- Ex oriente lux. 8. The natural history of intellect. Representative men -- The lecturer -- Persia and poetry -- The new domestic order: poems -- The orchard keeper -- I shall never graduate -- England -- The natural history of intellect -- Chartism and revolution. 9. The science of liberty. Return: quarrel with Thoreau -- The Walden Sierras: quetelet -- Therienism and the Hegelian moment -- The west -- The matter of Margaret -- The tragic -- The conduct of life -- The Fugitive Slave Act -- The science of liberty.

10. Fame. My platoon -- Country walking and the sea -- English traits -- Fame -- Whitman -- The remedy at the hour of need -- The power and terror of thought. 11. Endings. Memory -- Civil war. Death of Thoreau -- Terminus -- May-day -- Harvard; California; Fire. -- Philae and Parnassus -- Fire at the core of the world.

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