A power to translate the world : new essays on Emerson and international culture / David LaRocca and Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso, editors.
| Other author | LaRocca, David, 1975- editor. |
| Other author | Miguel-Alfonso, Ricardo editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2015] |
| Description | 354 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Emerson and international culture |
| Series | Re-mapping the transnational : a Dartmouth series in American Studies Re-mapping the transnational. ^A1129641 |
| Contents | Introduction: Thinking Through International Influence / David LaRocca and Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso -- I. Emerson beyond Borders in His Time. 1 The Anti-Slave from Emerson to Obama / Donald E. Pease; 2 Emerson, the Indian Brahmo Samaj, and the American Reception of Gandhi / David M. Robinson; 3 Transcendentalist Triangulations: The American Goethe and His Female Disciples / Monika M. Elbert; 4 Emerson, Great Britain, and the International Struggle for the Rights of the Workingman / Len Gougeon; 5 An "Extempore Adventurer" in Italy: Emerson as International Tourist, 1832/1833 / Robert D. Habich -- II. Emerson and Global Modernity. 6 "Eternal Allusion": Maeterlinck's Readings of Emerson's Somatic Semiotics / David LaRocca; 7 Emerson in Germany, 1850/1933: Appreciation and Appropriation / Herwig Friedl; 8 Transcendental Modernism: Vicente Huidobro's Emersonian Poetics / Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso; 9 Rilke and Emerson: The Case against Influence as Such / Richard Deming; 10 Emerson; or, The Critic; The Arnoldian Ideal / K.L. Evans; 11 The "Whole" Conduct of Life: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry James / Daniel Rosenberg Nutters -- III. Emerson and the Far East; 12 Emerson and Japan: Finding a Way of Cultural Criticism / Naoko Saito; 13 Emerson and China / Neal Dolan and Laura Jane Wey; 14 Confucius and Emerson on the Virtue of Self-Reliance / Mathew A. Foust -- IV. Emerson and the Near East. 15 Emerson and Some Jewish Questions / Kenneth S. Sacks; 16 Emerson and Jewish Readers / David Mikics; 17 Middle Eastern/American Literature: A Contemporary Turn in Emerson Studies / Roger Sedarat. |
| Abstract | "This work is a edited collection tracing the global impact of Emerson's thought"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2015011818 |
| ISBN | 9781611688283 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1611688280 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781611688290 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1611688299 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PS1638 .P69 2015 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |