@font-face { font-family: "Calibri"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }h4 { margin: 12pt 0in 3pt; page-break-after: avoid; font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }span.Heading4Char { font-family: Calibri; font-weight: bold; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } 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 ...
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@font-face { font-family: "Calibri"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }h4 { margin: 12pt 0in 3pt; page-break-after: avoid; font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }span.Heading4Char { font-family: Calibri; font-weight: bold; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } 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 widely by the reading public. "Building Their Own Waldos" sets out to understand the dilemma faced by Emerson's early biographers: how to represent a figure whose subversive individualism had been eclipsed by his celebrity, making him less a representative of his age than a caricature of it. Drawing on never-before-published letters, diaries, drafts, business records, and private documents, Habich Emerson's First Biographers explores the making of a cultural hero through the stories of Emerson's first biographers--George Willis Cooke, a minister most recently from Indianapolis who considered himself a disciple; the English reformer and newspaper mogul Alexander Ireland, a friend for half a century; Moncure D. Conway, a Southern abolitionist then residing in London, who called Emerson his "spiritual father and intellectual teacher"; the poet and medical professor Oliver Wendell Holmes, with Emerson a member of Boston's gathering of literary elite, the Saturday Club; James Elliot Cabot, the family's authorized biographer, an architect and amateur philosopher with unlimited access to Emerson's unpublished papers; and Emerson's son Edward, a physician and painter whose father had passed over him as literary executor in favor of Cabot.
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