TY - BOOK AU - Habich,Robert D. ED - Project Muse. TI - Building their own Waldos: Emerson's first biographers and the politics of life-writing in the Gilded Age SN - 9781587299636 AV - PS1631 .H28 2011 U1 - 814/.3B 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Iowa City PB - University of Iowa Press KW - Emerson, Ralph Waldo, KW - Biography as a literary form KW - American prose literature KW - History and criticism KW - Authors, American KW - Biography KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781587299636/ ER -