Emerson among the Eccentrics | Emerson among the Eccentrics

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Author: Carlos Baker
First Published: 1996
Type of Work: Literary biography
Time of Work: 1832-1882
Setting: Boston and Concord, Massachusetts
Principal Characters: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lidian Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Amos Bronson Alcott, William Ellery Channing
Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
Subjects: Family or family life, Philosophy or philosophers, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, Religion, Civil War, Transcendentalism
Locales: Boston, MA, Concord, MA

When Carlos Baker died in 1987, he left the manuscript of this work virtually completed; James R. Mellow has provided introduction and epilogue as a frame for Baker’s book, to tie the unfinished manuscript together. The work is organized into five sections of some fifty chapters, one section for each of the decades of Emerson’s life Baker focuses on, from the 1830’s through the 1870’s (Emerson died in 1882). Each chapter averages about ten pages in length, and each centers on an episode in the life of one or another of the figures in the Transcendentalist movement of the middle...

Emerson among the Eccentrics | Emerson among the Eccentrics

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