A power to translate the world : new essays on Emerson and international culture /
"This work is a edited collection tracing the global impact of Emerson's thought" --
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2015] ©2015. |
| Series: | Re-mapping the transnational.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Thinking through international influence / David LaRocca and Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso
- Part I. Emerson beyond borders in his time. The anti-slave from Emerson to Obama / Donald E. Pease ; Emerson, the Indian Brahmo Samaj, and the American reception of Gandhi / David M. Robinson ; Transcendentalist triangulations : the American Goethe and his female disciples / Monika M. Elbert ; Emerson, Great Britain, and the international struggle for the rights of the workingman / Len Gougeon ; An "extempore adventurer" in Italy : Emerson as international tourist, 1832-1833 / Robert D. Habich
- Part II. Emerson and global modernity. "Eternal allusion" : Maeterlinck's readings of Emerson's somatic semiotics / David LaRocca ; Emerson in Germany, 1850-1933 : appreciation and appropriation / Herwig Friedl ; Transcendental modernism : Vicente Huidobro's Emersonian poetics / Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso ; Rilke and Emerson : the case against influence as such / Richard Deming ; Emerson, or, The critic : the Arnoldian ideal / K.L. Evans ; The "whole conduct of life" : Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry James / Daniel Rosenberg Nutters
- Part III. Emerson and the Far East. Emerson and Japan : finding a way of cultural criticism / Naoko Saito ; Emerson and China / Neal Dolan and Laura Jane Wey ; Confucius and Emerson on the virtue of self-reliance / Mathew A. Foust
- Part IV. Emerson and the Near East. Emerson and some Jewish questions / Kenneth S. Sacks ; Emerson and Jewish readers / David Mikics ; Middle Eastern/American literature : a contemporary turn in Emerson studies / Roger Sedarat.