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Individualism and Its Discontents. Appropriations of Emerson, 1880-1950.
by MITCHELL, Charles E
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1558490736
- ISBN 13
- 9781558490734
- Seller
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Tamworth, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, (1997). First edition.. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo, green cloth, pp. xii, 220. Fine in dust jacket. From the publisher's blurb, " this book explores the intertwined history of Emerson and individualism. Charles E. Mitchell begins by examining those who regarded Emersonian individualism with ambivalence or hostility, focusing on the comments of such diverse figures as Henry James, Sr., Oliver Wendell Holmes, Van Wyck Brooks, and H.L. Mencken. He then offers an alternative view as reflected in the work of William James, John Dewey, W.E.B. Du Bois, and William Carlos Williams. Each of these figures embraced Emerson's claim for the sanctity of the individual and wove it into a social vision that sought to reconcile the paradox at the heart of American life: a simultaneous devotion to the community and the individual, tradition and innovation, order and freedom". Fine in dust jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10891
- Title
- Individualism and Its Discontents. Appropriations of Emerson, 1880-1950.
- Author
- MITCHELL, Charles E
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1558490736
- ISBN 13
- 9781558490734
- Publisher
- Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, (1997). First edition.
- Place of Publication
- Amherst
- This edition first published
- 1997
- Keywords
- EMERSON RALPH WALDO 1803 1882 INDIVIDUALISM UNITED STATES CIVILIZATION 1865 1918 1945 AMERICAN LITERATURE HISTORY CRITICISM 20TH CENTURY 19TH GENERAL LITERARY PHILOSOPHY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Ralph Waldo Emerson;
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