Society and Solitude, 7. kötet

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Harvard University Press, 2007 - 449 oldal
"Society and Solitude, published in 1870, was the first collection of essays Ralph Waldo Emerson had put into press since The Conduct of Life ten years earlier. Of the twelve essays included in the volume, he had previously published seven in whole or in part: "Society and Solitude," "Civilization," "Art," "Eloquence," "Domestic Life," "Books," and "Old Age." Emerson added five previously unpublished lectures or essays, "Works and Days," "Clubs," "Courage," "Success," and "Farming." This edition is based on Emerson's holograph manuscripts and published sources. The text incorporates corrections and revisions he recorded in both sources, and thus restores for the reader the text he actually wrote. Although he is still visibly the insistent optimist of his early and middle career, here Emerson assumes a more pragmatic attitude than formerly toward the life of the mind and the imagination. Society and Solitude captures the penultimate expression of Emersonian Transcendentalism and Romanticism."--Publisher's website.

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Note on Numbering and Documentation
xiii
Statement of Editorial Principles
lxvii
Society and Solitude
1
Civilization
9
Art
18
Eloquence
30
Domestic Life
52
Farming
69
Success
143
Old Age
159
Notes
171
Textual Apparatus
275
The Text of American Civilization
329
Precopytext Variants in Farming
337
The Manuscripts
342
Alterations in the Manuscripts
349

Works and Days
79
Books
95
Clubs
113
Courage
127
Emersons Corrections and Emendations
390
Index
427
Copyright

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