Emerson's Prot馮駸: Mentoring and Marketing Transcendentalism's Future (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780300197440)

In the late 1830s, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, lecturer, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement, publicly called for a radical nationwide vocational reinvention, and an idealistic group of collegians eagerly responded. Assuming the role of mentor, editor, and promoter, Emerson freely offered them his time, financial support, and anti-materialistic counsel, and profoundly shaped the careers of his young acolytes--including Henry David Thoreau, renowned journalist and women's rights advocate Margaret Fuller, and lesser-known literary figures such as Samuel Ward and reckless romantic poets Jones Very, Ellery Channing, and Charles Newcomb.

Author David Dowling's history of the professional and personal relationships between Emerson and his prot g s--a remarkable collaboration that alternately proved fruitful and destructive, tension-filled and liberating--is a fascinating true story of altruism, ego, influence, pettiness, genius, and the bold attempt to reshape the literary market of the mid-nineteenth century.

Author: David O. Dowling
ISBN-10: 0300197446
ISBN-13: 9780300197440
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/26/2014
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.46w x 0.94d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2015 pg. 971