Collected works / (by) Ralph Waldo Emerson ; edited by Alfred Riggs Ferguson ; introduced by Joseph Slater ; volume eds Alfred Riggs Ferguson and Jean Ferguson Carr. V.3, Essays : second series
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
Language: English
Published by Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap P., 1983
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- Title
- Collected works / (by) Ralph Waldo Emerson ; edited by Alfred Riggs Ferguson ; introduced by Joseph Slater ; volume eds Alfred Riggs Ferguson and Jean Ferguson Carr. V.3, Essays : second series
- Author
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap P.
- Publication year
- 1983
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0674139909
- ISBN 13
- 9780674139909
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 1 kilogram
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s second collection of essays appeared in 1844, when he was forty-one. It includes eight essays―“The Poet,” “Experience,” “Character,” “Manners,” “Gifts,” “Nature,” “Politics,” and “Nominalist and Realist”―and one address, the much misunderstood “New England Reformers.” Essays: Second Series has a lightness of tone and an irony absent from the earlier writings, but it is no less memorable: “a sermon to me,” Carlyle wrote, “a real word.”
The present edition, drawing on the vast body of Emerson scholarship of the last forty years, incorporates all the textual changes Emerson made or demonstrably intended to make after 1844. It records variant wordings and recounts the development of the text before and after publication. A list of parallel passages makes it possible to trace Emerson’s extensive use of material from his journals, notebooks, and lectures. Endnotes provide information about people, events, and now-obscure terms. A brief historical introduction places the book in the context of the years during which it was written, the time of Brook Farm, The Dial, and the death of Emerson’s five year-old son.
Historical Introduction and Notes by Joseph Slater
Text Established by Alfred R. Ferguson and Jean Ferguson Carr
Textual Introduction and Apparatus by Jean Ferguson Carr
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About the Author
Alfred R. Ferguson (1915–1974) was Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Jean Ferguson Carr is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, where she writes and teaches in composition, women’s studies, history of the book, literacy, and literary studies, focusing on nineteenth-century American constructions of literacy and letters.
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