This gathering of eleven original essays with a substantive
introduction brings the traditional image of Emerson the
Transcendentalist face-to-face with an emerging image of Emerson
the reformer. "The Emerson Dilemma" highlights the conflict between
Emerson's philosophical attraction to solitary contemplation and
the demands of activism compelled by the logic of his own writings.
The essays cover Emerson's reform thought and activism from his
early career as a Unitarian minister through his reaction to the
Civil War. In addition to Emerson's antislavery position, the
collection covers his complex relationship to the early women's
rights movement and American Indian removal. Individual essays also
compare Emerson's reform ethics with those of his wife, Lidian
Jackson Emerson, his aunt Mary Moody, Henry David Thoreau, John
Brown, and Margaret Fuller.
The Emerson who emerges from this volume is one whose
Transcendentalism is explicitly politicized; thus, we see him
consciously mediating between the opposing forces of the world he
"thought" and the world in which he lived.
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