The Emerson Museum

Practical Romanticism and the Pursuit of the Whole

Lee Rust Brown

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$38.00 • £30.95 • €34.00

ISBN 9780674248847

Publication Date: 04/25/1997

Short

304 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

2 halftones

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Abbreviations
Introduction: The View from the Notch
1. Ruins in the Eye
- Coleridge and the Prospect of me Whole
- Emersonian Transparency
2. The Emerson Museum
- In the Gardens of Natural History
- Paris and the Scientific Eye
3. Life’s Writing
4. Practical Power
- Compensation and Criticism
- The Skeptical Return
- True Romance
Notes
Index

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