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A power to translate the world : new essays on Emerson and international culture
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"This work is a edited collection tracing the global impact of Emerson's thought"--
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- Creator
- David LaRocca and Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso, editors
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, [2015]
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- Physical Details
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- 354 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1611688299, 9781611688306, 9781611688283, 9781611688290, 1611688280, 1611688302
- OCLC
- ocn907190218, ocn925423845, ocn925333031
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: Thinking Through International Influence / David LaRocca and Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso -- I. Emerson beyond Borders in His Time. 1 The Anti-Slave from Emerson to Obama / Donald E. Pease; 2 Emerson, the Indian Brahmo Samaj, and the American Reception of Gandhi / David M. Robinson; 3 Transcendentalist Triangulations: The American Goethe and His Female Disciples / Monika M. Elbert; 4 Emerson, Great Britain, and the International Struggle for the Rights of the Workingman / Len Gougeon; 5 An "Extempore Adventurer" in Italy: Emerson as International Tourist, 1832/1833 / Robert D. Habich -- II. Emerson and Global Modernity. 6 "Eternal Allusion": Maeterlinck's Readings of Emerson's Somatic Semiotics / David LaRocca; 7 Emerson in Germany, 1850/1933: Appreciation and Appropriation / Herwig Friedl; 8 Transcendental Modernism: Vicente Huidobro's Emersonian Poetics / Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso; 9 Rilke and Emerson: The Case against Influence as Such / Richard Deming; 10 Emerson; or, The Critic; The Arnoldian Ideal / K.L. Evans; 11 The "Whole" Conduct of Life: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry James / Daniel Rosenberg Nutters -- III. Emerson and the Far East; 12 Emerson and Japan: Finding a Way of Cultural Criticism / Naoko Saito; 13 Emerson and China / Neal Dolan and Laura Jane Wey; 14 Confucius and Emerson on the Virtue of Self-Reliance / Mathew A. Foust -- IV. Emerson and the Near East. 15 Emerson and Some Jewish Questions / Kenneth S. Sacks; 16 Emerson and Jewish Readers / David Mikics; 17 Middle Eastern/American Literature: A Contemporary Turn in Emerson Studies / Roger Sedarat