Emerson & Thoreau

Figures of Friendship
Herausgeber: Lysaker, John T; Rossi, William

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This lively volume explores the theme of friendship in the lives andworks of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Written from diverseperspectives, the essays offer close readings of selected texts and draw on lettersand journals to offer a comprehensive view of how Emerson's and Thoreau'sfriendships took root and bolstered their individual political, social, and ethicalprojects. This collection explores how Emerson and Thoreau, in their own ways, conceived of friendship as the creation of shared meaning in light of personaldifferences, tragedy and loss, and changing life circumstances. Emerson and Thoreaupresents important reflections on the role of friendship in the lives of individualsand in global culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 158mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9780253221438
• ISBN-10: 0253221439
• Artikelnr.: 26569601

Autorenporträt

edited by John T. Lysaker, William Rossi, with contributions by Lawrence Buell, Barbara Packer, David M. Robinson, Russell B. Goodman, Alan D. Hodder

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations for Emerson, Thoreau, and Carlyle Citations
Introduction / John T. Lysaker and William Rossi
Part 1. Transcendental Contexts
1. Transcendental Friendship: An Oxymoron? / Lawrence Buell
2. Forgiving the Giver: Emerson, Carlyle, Thoreau / Barbara Packer
Part 2. Emerson's "Friendship"
3. "In the Golden Hour of Friendship": Transcendentalism and Utopian Desire
/ David M. Robinson
4. Emerson and Skepticism: A Reading of "Friendship" / Russell B. Goodman
5. On the Faces of Emersonian "Friendship" / John T. Lysaker
Part 3. Thoreau's Divergent Melodies
6. "In Dreams Awake": Loss, Transcendental Friendship, and Elegy / William
Rossi
7. "Let Him Be to Me a Spirit": Paradoxes of True Friendship in Emerson and
Thoreau / Alan D. Hodder
Part 4. Giving Friendship for Life
8. Giving Friendship: The Perichoresis of an All-Embracing Service / James
Crosswhite
9. Leaving and Bequeathing: Friendship, Moral Perfectionism, and the Gleam
of Light / Naoko Saito
Works Cited
List of Contributors
Index