In faithfully reproducing all of Emerson's handwritten journals and
notebooks, this edition is succeeding in revealing Emerson the man
and the thinker. The old image of the ideal nineteenth-century
gentleman, created by editorial omission of his spontaneous
thoughts, is replaced by the picture of Emerson as he really was.
His frank and often bitter criticisms of men and societym his
"nihilizing," his views of women, his ideas of the Negro, of
religion, of God--these and other expressions of his private
thought and feeling, formerly deleted or subdued, are here
restored. Restored also is the full evidence needed for studies of
his habits of composition, the developement of his style, and the
sources of his ideas. Canceled passages are reproduced, misreadings
are corrected, and hiterto unpublished manuscripts are now printed.
Here is the twelfth volume, which makes available nine of
Emerson's lecture notebooks, covering a span of twenty-seven years,
from 1835 to 1862, from apprenticeship to fame.
These notebooks contain materials Emerson collected for the
composition of his lectures, articles, and essays during those
years, a complex mixture of indexlike surveys of his journals,
lists of possible topics and titles, salvaged journals passages and
revisions, new drafts ranging from brief paragraphs to several
pages in length, notes and translations from his reading, working
notes, and partial outlines. In them we see Emerson at work,
balancing his aspirations as orator and writer against the
practicalities of deadlines, finances, and audiences.
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