Emerson in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, FUniversity of Iowa Press, 2005 - 288 pagina's At his death, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was universally acknowledged in America and England as “the Great Romancer.” Novels such as The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables and stories published in such collections as Twice-Told Tales continue to capture the minds and imaginations of readers and critics to this day. Harder to capture, however, were the character and personality of the man himself. So few of the essays that appeared in the two years after his death offered new insights into his life, art, and reputation that Hawthorne seemed fated to premature obscurity or, at least, permanent misrepresentation. This first collection of personal reminiscences by those who knew Hawthorne intimately or knew about him through reliable secondary sources rescues him from these confusions and provides the real human history behind the successful writer. Remembrances from Elizabeth Peabody, Sophia Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bronson Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, and twenty others printed in Hawthorne in His Own Time follow him from his childhood in Salem, through his years of initial literary obscurity, his days in the Boston and Salem Custom Houses, his service as U.S. Consul to Liverpool and Manchester and his life in the Anglo-American communities at Rome and Florence, to his late years as the “Great Romancer.” In their enlightening introduction, editors Ronald Bosco and Jillmarie Murphy assess the postmortem building of Hawthorne’s reputation as well as his relationship to the prominent Transcendentalists, spiritualists, Swedenborgians, and other personalities of his time. By clarifying the sentimental associations between Hawthorne’s writings and his actual personality and moving away from the critical review to the personal narrative, these artful and perceptive reminiscences tell the private and public story of a remarkable life. |
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Inhoudsopgave
Amos Bronson Alcott A Visit to Emerson at Concord in 1837 | 1 |
Convers Francis Remarks on Emerson in 1838 1855 and 1858 | 3 |
Ellis Gray Loring A Visit from Emerson in 1838 | 10 |
Annie Sawyer Downs Reminiscences of a Childhood in Concord in the 1840s | 12 |
Richard Frederick Fuller The Younger Generation in 1840 from the Diary of a New England Boy | 16 |
Margaret Fuller At Concord with the Emersons in 1842 | 21 |
Jane Welsh Carlyle and Thomas Carlyle A Visit from Emerson in 1847 | 28 |
Anonymous Emerson as a Lecturer | 33 |
A B Muzzey From Reminiscences and Memorials of the Men of the Revolution and Their Families 1883 | 116 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes From Ralph Waldo Emerson 1884 | 121 |
Pendleton King Notes of Conversations with Emerson 1884 | 128 |
Annie Adams Fields Glimpses of Emerson 1884 | 136 |
Frank Bellew Recollections of Ralph Waldo Emerson 1884 | 143 |
E P Peabody Emerson as Preacher 1885 | 150 |
Edward Waldo Emerson Ellen Tucker Emerson and Edith Emerson Forbes Emerson as Remembered by His Children 1889 and 1897 1902 1921 | 157 |
Charles JWoodbury From Talks with Ralph Waldo Emerson 1890 | 173 |
Herman Melville Letter to Evert A Duyckinck about Emerson as a Lecturer | 35 |
Fredrika Bremer From The Homes of the New World Impressions of America 1853 | 38 |
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn Mr Emersons Lectures 1864 | 42 |
George William Curtis Emerson as Seen from the Editors Easy Chair in 1865 | 46 |
Anonymous Ralph Waldo Emerson 1865 | 49 |
James Russell Lowell From My Study Windows 1871 | 53 |
Bronson Alcott FullerThoreau Emerson The Substance of a Conversation 1871 | 58 |
Anna Alcott Pratt Louisa May Alcott and Ellen Tucker Emerson House burnedWednesday 24 July 1872 | 62 |
A Literary Interview 1874 | 70 |
A History 1876 | 74 |
Walt Whitman From Prose Works 1892 18811882 | 80 |
Ellen Tucker Emerson Emersons Death 1882 | 84 |
Louisa May Alcott Reminiscences of Ralph Waldo Emerson 1882 | 89 |
Frederic Henry Hedge Reminiscences of Emerson 1882 | 95 |
Edwin Percy Whipple Some Recollections of Ralph Waldo Emerson 1882 | 102 |
Julia Ward Howe and Ednah Dow Cheney From Concord Lectures on Philosophy at the Concord School of Philosophy in 1882 | 111 |
Francis Espinasse From Literary Recollections and Sketches 1893 | 178 |
William Henry Furness Random Reminiscences of Emerson 1893 | 184 |
W J Stillman The Philosophers Camp Emerson Agassiz Lowell and Others in the Adirondacks 1893 | 189 |
William Dean Howells My First Visit to New England 1894 | 195 |
Frank Preston Stearns From Sketches from Concord and Appledore 1895 | 200 |
Rebecca Harding Davis A Little Gossip 1900 | 209 |
John Muir Emerson in the Yosemite Valley 1901 | 213 |
William James and Caroline Hazard From The Centenary of the Birth of Ralph Waldo Emerson 1903 | 217 |
Julian Hawthorne Personal Glimpses of Emerson 1903 | 224 |
The Teacher and the Man 1903 | 229 |
Daniel Chester French A Sculptors Reminiscences of Emerson 1916 | 233 |
Robert Underwood Johnson From Remembered Yesterdays 1923 | 238 |
An Autobiography 1923 | 242 |
Elizabeth Oakes Smith Recollections of Emerson His Household and Friends 1924 | 248 |
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