AN UNEASY SOLITUDE Individual and Society in the Work of Ralph Waldo Emerson

GONNAUD Maurice, ROSENWALD Lawrence

ISBN 10: 069106718X / ISBN 13: 9780691067186

Published by Princeton University Press, 1987. 069106718X, 1987

About this Item

1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt and black lettered brown cloth (faded strip at tail of spine, small mark on upper board - otherwise VG), dustwrapper (some fading on lower cover - otherwise VG in protective cover). Pp. xxvii + 477 (no inscriptions).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: AN UNEASY SOLITUDE Individual and Society in the Work of Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1987. 069106718X
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 069106718X
• ISBN 13: 9780691067186
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

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 ardor it awakened in him to his efforts to confront the social pressures of his times.

Originally published in 1987.

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Language Notes

Text: English, French (translation)