Emerson's protégés : mentoring and marketing transcendentalism's future / David Dowling.
"In the late 1830s, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, lecturer, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement, publicly called for a radical nationwide vocational reinvention, and an idealistic group of collegians eagerly responded. Assuming the role of mentor, editor, and promoter,...
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Published: | New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014] ©2014. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I Prized progeny
- 1 Emerson's hero: mentoring Margaret Fuller
- 2 Henry David Thoreau: a poet's apprenticeship
- Part II Trafficking in art
- 3 Christopher Cranch: finding the painter in the poet
- 4 Samuel Gray Ward: a financier's aesthetic
- Part III Reckless romantics
- 5 Ellery Charming: Saturday afternoon professor; or, Concord's mad poet
- 6 Jones Very: a poet's zeal
- 7 Charles King Newcomb: Emerson's dark apprentice.