Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII - Society and Solitude (Hardcover)

Society and Solitude, published in 1870, was the first collection of essays 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 Emerson added five previously unpublished lectures or essays, "Works and Days," "Clubs," "Courage," "Success," and "Farming."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. Historical Introduction, Notes, and Parallel Passages by Ronald A. Bosco Text Established and Textual Introduction and Apparatus by Douglas Emory Wilson

General

Imprint:	The Belknap Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Release date:	2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Ralph Waldo Emerson
Editors:	Ronald A. Bosco • Douglas Emory Wilson
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With printed dust jacket / Reinforced binding
Pages:	542
ISBN-13:	978-0-674-02627-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
LSN:	0-674-02627-6
Barcode:	9780674026278

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