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Building their own Waldos [electronic resource] : Emerson's first biographers and the politics of life-writing in the Gilded Age / by Robert D. Habich.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 186 p. )Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781587299636
  • 1587299631
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 814/.3 B 22
LOC classification:
  • PS1631 .H28 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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.

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