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Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Major Prose

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ISBN 9780674417069

Publication Date: 06/09/2015

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608 pages

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

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Belknap Press

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  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Textual Policies
  • Sermon CLXII [“The Lord’s Supper”] (1832)
  • The Uses of Natural History (1833–1835)
  • Nature (1836)
  • Humanity of Science (1836, 1847–1848)
  • The American Scholar (1837)
  • The Divinity School Address (1838)
  • Self-Reliance (1841)
  • Circles (1841)
  • The Transcendentalist (1842, 1849)
  • New England: Genius, Manners, and Customs (1843–1844)
  • The Poet (1844)
  • Experience (1844)
  • Nominalist and Realist (1844)
  • An Address Delivered in the Court-House in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844, on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies (1844)
  • England (1848–1852)
  • Uses of Great Men (1850)
  • The Anglo-American (1852–1855)
  • American Slavery (1855)
  • Address at the Woman’s Rights Convention (1855)
  • Mr. R. W. Emerson’s Remarks at the Kansas Relief Meeting in Cambridge (1856)
  • The Natural Method of Mental Philosophy (1858)
  • Fate (1860)
  • American Civilization (1862)
  • Thoreau (1862)
  • The President’s Proclamation (1862)
  • The Scholar (1863)
  • Character (1866)
  • Works and Days (1870)
  • Credits
  • Index

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