Building their own Waldos : Emerson's first biographers and the politics of life-writing in the Gilded Age /
By the end of the nineteenth century, Ralph Waldo Emerson was well on his way to becoming the "Wisest American" and the "Sage of Concord," a literary celebrity and a national icon. With that fame came what Robert Habich describes as a blandly sanctified version of Emerson held wi...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2011. |
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