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The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Paperback)
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The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Paperback)
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This is the first and only comprehensive selection of lectures by
Ralph Waldo Emerson, his era's most prominent American man of
letters and one of the foremost architects of our intellectual
culture. Based on authoritative texts selected and edited by Ronald
A. Bosco and Joel Myerson - the most experienced Emerson editors
working today - these twenty-five addresses collectively exemplify
the lecture style for which Emerson was famed in his day. Best
known to his contemporaries as a lecturer, Emerson delivered some
1,500 addresses over the course of his career. Because his most
important ideas were worked out in his lectures, they provide the
best record we have of his evolving thought - and thus are a key to
our understanding of his essays and other printed works. Gathered
here are lectures on American culture, literary theory and
aesthetics, moral and, as Emerson called it, ""intellectual""
philosophy, and social and political reform. They are taken from
speaking engagements in the United States and the British Isles
over the period 1833-1871, during which Emerson often spent four to
six months a year on the lecture circuit; lectures from the
earliest years of Emerson's career (1833-1842) have been newly
edited for this volume. The volume's introduction draws on
contemporary accounts to describe Emerson's idiosyncratic but
utterly memorable manner of speaking. A headnote provides context
to the composition and delivery of each lecture, and footnotes
identify Emerson's allusions to persons, places, occasions,
quotations, and books. ""By examining his lectures and how they
were delivered,"" say Bosco and Myerson, ""we can look into the
laboratory of Emerson's intellectual and compositional process and
see his published writings gestating.
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