The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-289437-3 (ISBN)
The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson is the most expansive collection of critical essays on Emerson to date, a survey that approaches Emerson from the vantages of climate change, racial justice, print culture, the digital humanities, the new religious studies, hemispheric American Studies, health humanities, and affect theory among other critical perspectives. Curated between a forward by editor Christopher Hanlon--who makes the case for a capacious and contemporary Emerson--and Cornel West--the activist-scholar whose influential work on Emerson merges with a career of advocacy for economic and racial justice—this collection assesses the history and state of Emerson scholarship while charting pathways for new work on this most essential American writer.
Comprised of new works by leading figures in nineteenth-century Americanist literary studies, the volume suggests directions into underexamined facets of Emerson's writing, life, and reputation. From Emerson's engagements with energy infrastructure and the processes of extraction that undergirded the locomotives he rode and the energy economies he sometimes extolled; to the vicissitudes of age he experienced alongside the romantic tropes of youthful vigour he both re-circulated and re-tooled; to Emerson's poetry, both in its philosophical formulations and in its reflections of the material circumstances of nineteenth-century print culture; to Emerson's resonance beyond the United States, elsewhere in the western hemisphere; to the Black press and its refractions of Emersonian transcendentalism in the midst of ante- and post-bellum justice struggles; to the legacies of Emerson to be found in the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, Rachel Carson, and in the versions of “Emerson” to be found in children's literature; to his often-fraught and often-fruitful engagements with reform movements of various sorts; to the prospects for digital processes of re-reading Emerson and his contemporaries' styles of textual production and engagement, The Oxford Handbook of Ralph Waldo Emerson is a necessary resource for students, scholars, and general readers committed to the study of Emerson, transcendentalism, and current critical approaches to United States literature.
Christopher Hanlon is Professor of United States literature at Arizona State University. He is the author of America's England: Atlantic Sectionalism and Antebellum Literature (Oxford, 2013) and Emerson's Memory Loss: Originality, Communality, and the Late Style (Oxford, 2018) as well as numerous essays on American literature and culture published in outlets such as The New York Times, The L.A. Review of Books, American Literary History, American Literature, J19, and Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Christopher Hanlon: Forward
Part 1
Climate, or, Emerson and the Environmental Humanities
Jeffrey Insko: Emerson, Energy, Infrastructure
Michele Navakas and Dominic Mastroianni: Emerson Undersea
Michelle Neely: 'Up again, old heart!': Emerson in the Athropocene
Christina Katopodis: The 'Mute Music' in Emerson's Polarity: Generating Practical Power
Patrick Morgan: Transcendental Geologies: Emerson, Anti-slavery, and the Kairos of Deep Time
David Greenham: 'The Seed of the World': Emerson's Transatlantic Transcendentalist First Philosophy>"
Part 2
American Civilization, or, Hemispheric Emersons
Timothy Donahue: Emerson, Martí, and a Cosmopolitanism for the Americas
Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso: Emersonian Figurations in Modern Hispanic Poetics
Martha Schoolman: Emerson and Caribbean Emancipation
Part 3
Race, or, Emancipation and Resistance
Drew Lopenzina and Laura L. Mielke: Speaking for 'the Indian'
Christopher Hanlon: 'The calamity of the next ages': Emerson and Reconstruction
Tim Sommer: Emerson and Carlyle: Race and (Anti-)Slavery
Michael Stancliff: Nature's President: Emerson on Emancipation and Executive Power
Anita Patterson: Emersonian Legacies of Black Resistance
Prentiss Clark: The 'arch-abolitionist': Emerson, Love, and Social Justice
Part 4
Wealth, or, Capitalism and its Alternatives
Benjamin Pickford: Emerson and Capitalism
Andrew Kopec: Emerson's Market Forces
Holly Jackson: Emerson and the Socialists: American Renaissance in the Age of Fourier
Part 5
Worship, or, Religion and the Secular
Claudia Stokes: Emerson among the Methodists
Justine Murison: Emerson and Secularism
Part 6
Prospects, or, Computational Approaches to Emerson
Brad Rittenhouse and Maurice S. Lee: Experimenting with Emerson: A Quantitative Approach
Noelle Baker: Emerson's Unoriginality and the Commonplace Books of Mary Moody Emerson and Margaret Fuller
Part 7
Quotation and Originality, or, Emerson's Editors
Ronald Bosco and Joel Myerson: Editing Emerson
Brigitte Fielder: Emerson, Nature, and Networks in the Black Press
Kate Culkin: Ellen Tucker Emerson: Portrait of a Daughter as Secretary, Editor, and Biographer
Part 8
The Man of the World, or, Readers, Interlocutors, Networks
Kristina West: 'Fleeing to fables': Reading Emerson in Literature for Children
Rachel Banner: Emerson, Melville, Futility
Roger Thompson: Emerson, Rhetoric, and Oratorical Culture
Randall Fuller: Lydia Jackson Emerson
Part 9
The Poet, or, From Commonplacing Verse to Poetic Print Culture
Meredith McGill: Metamorphosis and Transcription: Emerson's 'The Poet' and the Question of Form
Eliza Richards: Emerson's Muses, Poets, and Persons from The Dial to The Atlantic Monthly
Part 10
"Me" and "Not-Me," or, Emersonian Embodiments, Affects, Intimacies
Sari Edelstein: 'Nature Abhors the Old': Emerson's Transcendental Ageism
Don James McLaughlin: Aphasic Etymology: A Disability Poetics and the Emerson-Whitman Connection
Bonnie O'Neil: From Iconoclast to Icon: The Public Intellectual as Celebrity
Leslie Elizabeth Eckel: Emerson, Reluctant Feminist
Eduardo Cadava: Emerson and the Wildness of Friendship
Cornel West: Afterward: Ralph Waldo Emerson Transfigured
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.08.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Oxford Handbooks |
| Zusatzinfo | 11 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 180 x 252 mm |
| Gewicht | 1304 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-289437-4 / 0192894374 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-289437-3 / 9780192894373 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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