Emerson's Literary CriticismRalph Waldo Emerson has always fascinated students of criticism and of American literature and thought. Emerson& ’ s Literary Criticism supplies the continuing need for an anthology. This collection brings together Emerson& ’ s literary criticism from a wide variety of sources. Eric W. Carlson has culled both the major statements of Emerson's critical principles and many secondary observations that illuminate them. Here are more than sixty selections on thirty-five critical topics. Headnotes provide valuable background. Carlson relates Emerson& ’ s critical principles to his philosophy, social thought, and literary milieu, and also to biographical details. Intended for the student as well as the researcher, this book amply illustrates Alfred Kazin's contention that Ralph Waldo Emerson was "one of the shrewdest critics who ever lived." |
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... novel of twenty years earlier . " Yet how far off from life and manners and motives the novel still is ! . . . But the novel will find the way to our interiors one day ” ( W 7 : 214 ) . A lifelong though not systematic reader of novels ...
... novel of twenty years earlier . " Yet how far off from life and manners and motives the novel still is ! . . . But the novel will find the way to our interiors one day ” ( W 7 : 214 ) . A lifelong though not systematic reader of novels ...
Page 121
... Novel of Character vs. the Costume Novel Although he views the novel as a source of improved manners and dignity and praises Jane Eyre for suggesting the great potential of this genre , Emerson deplores most novels as preoccupied with ...
... Novel of Character vs. the Costume Novel Although he views the novel as a source of improved manners and dignity and praises Jane Eyre for suggesting the great potential of this genre , Emerson deplores most novels as preoccupied with ...
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... novel will find the way to our interiors one day , and will not always be the novel of costume merely . I do not think it inoperative now . So much novel- reading cannot leave the young men and maidens untouched ; and doubtless it gives ...
... novel will find the way to our interiors one day , and will not always be the novel of costume merely . I do not think it inoperative now . So much novel- reading cannot leave the young men and maidens untouched ; and doubtless it gives ...
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