Building their own Waldos Emerson's first biographers and the politics of life-writing in the Gilded Age /

Main Author: Habich, Robert D., 1951-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2011.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10456431
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260 |a Iowa City :  |b University of Iowa Press,  |c 2011. 
300 |a xxviii, 186 p. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction: building their own Waldos -- A genre in transition: biography in the 1880s -- An act of wholesome and pure-hearted admiration: Emerson's first biographer, George Willis Cooke -- Biographers and the pornographer: Conway, Ireland, and "Emerson and his friends" -- Diagnosing the gentle iconoclast: Dr. Holmes on Emerson -- Authorizing Emerson's biography: Cabot and/or Edward Emerson -- Shelf life: the legacy of Emerson's first biographies. 
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