Emerson's Protégés Mentoring and Marketing Transcendentalism's Future

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 protégés-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.

ISBN:	9780300197440
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Imprint:	Yale University Press
Published date:	26 Aug 2014
DEWEY:	814.3
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xi, 332
Weight:	646g
Height:	244mm
Width:	163mm
Spine width:	27mm

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