Mary Moody Emerson and the Origins of Transcendentalism: A Family HistoryOxford University Press, 26 feb 1998 - 400 pagina's Mary Moody Emerson has long been a New England legend, the "eccentric Calvinist aunt" of Ralph Waldo Emerson, wearing a death-shroud as her daily garment. This exciting new study, based on the first reading of all her known letters and diaries, reveals a complex human voice and powerful forerunner of American Transcendentalism. From the years of her famous nephew's infancy, in both private and published writings, she celebrated independence, solitude in nature, and inward communion with God. Mary Moody Emerson inherited both resources and constraints from her family, a lineage of Massachusetts ministers who had earlier practiced spiritual awakening and political resistance against England. Cole discovers a previously unexamined Emerson tradition of fervent piety in the ancestors' own writing and Mary's preservation of their memory. She also examines the position of a woman in this patriarchal family. Barred from the pulpit and university by her sex, she also refused marriage to become a reader, writer, and religious seeker. Cole's biography explores this reading and writing as both a woman's vocation and a gift to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Helping to raise her nephews after their father's death, Mary Moody Emerson urged Waldo the college student to seek solitude in nature and become a divine poet. Cole's pioneering study, tracing crucial lines of influence from Mary Emerson's heretofore unknown texts to her nephew's major works, establishes a fresh and vital source for a central American literary tradition. |
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A Family History Phyllis Cole. She wrote it primarily for herself and God ; when Waldo asked for some of its pages too eagerly in 1830 , Mary exploded , " I send you an Almanack ! ' Catch me — soberly — I will not till you return the ...
A Family History Phyllis Cole. She wrote it primarily for herself and God ; when Waldo asked for some of its pages too eagerly in 1830 , Mary exploded , " I send you an Almanack ! ' Catch me — soberly — I will not till you return the ...
Pagina 9
... writing women elicited her own writing . Through correspondence with her nephew Waldo , however , Mary became a direct source of Transcendentalism . Just as William Wordsworth wrote some of the founding texts of British Romantic- ism ...
... writing women elicited her own writing . Through correspondence with her nephew Waldo , however , Mary became a direct source of Transcendentalism . Just as William Wordsworth wrote some of the founding texts of British Romantic- ism ...
Pagina 10
... literary reputations and claim Mary Moody Emerson rather than Ralph Waldo Emerson as the true genius and prototype ... wrote , " without feeling how much happier was my star which rained on me 10 MARY MOODY EMERSON AND TRANSCENDENTALISM.
... literary reputations and claim Mary Moody Emerson rather than Ralph Waldo Emerson as the true genius and prototype ... wrote , " without feeling how much happier was my star which rained on me 10 MARY MOODY EMERSON AND TRANSCENDENTALISM.
Pagina 11
... Waldo , as to Waldo's daughter a generation later , was a culture of Puritan ... wrote in 1825. " I was educated to prize it . The kind Aunt whose cares ... Waldo's record of her family stories was entirely patriarchal , containing no ...
... Waldo , as to Waldo's daughter a generation later , was a culture of Puritan ... wrote in 1825. " I was educated to prize it . The kind Aunt whose cares ... Waldo's record of her family stories was entirely patriarchal , containing no ...
Pagina 24
... Waldo remembered Samuel Moody most of all for his powerful , spirit - driven language . Hearing the Methodist preacher Edward Taylor for the first time in 1835 , Waldo wrote that he " explains at once what Whitefield & Fox & Father ...
... Waldo remembered Samuel Moody most of all for his powerful , spirit - driven language . Hearing the Methodist preacher Edward Taylor for the first time in 1835 , Waldo wrote that he " explains at once what Whitefield & Fox & Father ...
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Pagina 61 - Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
Pagina 18 - If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
Pagina 46 - But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed then Eve. And Adam was not deceived ; but the woman, being deceived, was in the transgression ; notwithstanding she shall be saved in child-bearing, if they continue in faith, and charity, and holiness with sobriety.
Pagina 66 - And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the Lord because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.
Pagina 3 - England, and marks the precise time when the power of the old creed yielded to the influence of modern science and humanity. I have found that I could only bring you this portrait by selections from the diary of my heroine, premising a sketch of her time and place.
Pagina 163 - The key to the period appeared to be that the mind had become aware of itself. Men grew reflective and intellectual. There was a new consciousness.
Pagina 30 - I did not know it, Sir,' he replied, with the utmost humility. This is one of the household anecdotes in which I have found a relationship.
Pagina 122 - ... who twice or thrice put me in mortal terror by forcing me into the salt water off some wharf or bathing house, and I still recall the fright with which, after some of this salt experience, I heard his voice one day, (as Adam that of the Lord God in the garden,) summoning us to a new bath, and I vainly endeavouring to hide myself.
Pagina 231 - I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God. The name of the nearest friend sounds then foreign and accidental: to be brothers, to be acquaintances, master or servant, is then a trifle and a disturbance.
Pagina 58 - God wills us free, man wills us slaves, I will as God wills ; God's will be done. Here lies the body of JOHN JACK A native of Africa, who died March 1773 aged about sixty years.