Len Gougeon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1140750 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Len Gougeon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Len |
| FAMILY NAME | Gougeon |
| SIGNATURE | GOUGEON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Scranton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mr. Emerson's Revolution
The Mr. Emerson to which this volume pays tribute is a figure so ensconced in America's intellectual framework that we sometimes forget how iconoclastic he actually was.In his essays, Emerson fought intolerance, extolled imagination over doctrine, indicted fundamentalism, and demystified American exceptionalism.Simply put, Emerson was a Disturber of the Peace -an anti-honorific to which history has attached a gold star.When closely examined along…
Militant Abolitionism
This essay, relying on a wealth of original sources, reveals for the first time the dynamic and personal relationship that evolved between Fredrick Douglass and Ralph Waldo Emerson from 1844 until the onset of the Civil War as they mounted a militant campaign against the heinous institution of slavery
From Emerson to King
Patterson offers an exploration of Emerson's contribution to the national debate on democracy, race, and social reform. Emerson's writings, she contests, reveal a consistent pattern of contradiction between fundamental individual rights and race as a factor impossible to dismiss in a consideration of democratic values: ownership, nonconformity, freedom. She traces Emerson's legacy through the writing of African-American intellectuals of succeedin…
Emerson and the Woman Question
N a newspaper article celebrating the one-hundredth anniversary of Emerson's birth, Thomas Wentworth Higginson complained those who knew Mr. Emerson in the light of a reformer, as he surely did, would find precious little information given in direction by his biographers.' Noting the generally conservative character of the two most influential and popular biographies of Emerson, those by Oliver Wendell Holmes and James Elliot Cabot,2 Higginson wa…
God's Government Begun
The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau
The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is intended as an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting essays by a distinguished array of contributors, the Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings like A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, on the monumental Walden, or on his assorted journals and later books. It also serves in some ways as a b…
Emerson's Antislavery Writings
Emerson's Antislavery Writings
Historical background letter to Martin Van Buren An on the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies anniversary of West Indian emancipation letter to William Rotch antislavery speech at Dedham letter to the kidnapping committee antislavery remarks at Worcester letter to Mary Merrick Brooks Address to the Citizens of Concord on the Fugitive Slave Law the Fugitive Slave Law lecture on slavery assault on Charles Sumner Kansas relief me…
Holmes's Emerson and the Conservative Critique of Realism
Coordinates of Anglo-American Romanticism
Constructing a transatlantic arc of literature, Brantley explores how John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards provide an empirical as well as evangelical framework for interpreting their spiritual descendants, Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson. He finds that the four Anglo-American writers share a simultaneously rational and sensationalist reliance on experience as the avenue to knowledge. Wesley (1703-91), founder of British Methodism, and Edwards…
Virtue's Hero
Virtue's Hero
Samuel Joseph May and the Dilemmas of the Liberal Persuasion, 1797-1871
Journal Article Samuel Joseph May and the Dilemmas of the Liberal Persuasion, 1797–1871. By Donald Yacovone. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. xii + 262 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-87722-760-8.) Get access Samuel Joseph May and the Dilemmas of the Liberal Persuasion, 1797–1871. By Yacovone Donald. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. xii + 262 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-87722-760-8.) Len Gougeon Len Gougeon University of Scranton Search for o…
Virtue's Hero
Journal Article Virtue's Hero: Emerson, Antislavery, and Reform. By Len Gougeon. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990. xvi + 408 pp. $45.00.) Get access Wesley T. Mott Wesley T. Mott Worcester Polytechnic Institute Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 662–663, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080101 Published: 01 September 1992
Virtue's Hero
This title offers a look at Emerson's views on slavery and abolition. Scholars have long debated the question of Ralph Waldo Emerson's relationship to the abolition movement and the degree of his commitment to the antislavery cause. Some early commentators depicted Emerson as an active social reformer, while others have seen him as a contemplative dreamer, serenely aloof from frenetic reform activity. In Virtue's Hero', Len Gougeon draws on a hug…
Virtue's Hero
Emerson, Carlyle, and the Civil War
RALPH WALDO EMERSON and Thomas Carlyle are undoubtedly one of literature's best-known odd couples. As Ralph Rusk so aptly notes, even though the two immediately became fast, and enduring, friends upon first meeting Edinburgh 1833, they were in thought and character, plainly separated by a gap that could never be bridged.' The differences between them were both philosophical and temperamental. A transcendental idealist and optimist, Emerson held t…
Emerson and Abolition
Abolition, the Emersons, and 1837
EMERSON'S first antislavery speech was delivered late in November 1837. It was his first public statement on a social problem which had by then reached near crisis proportions and one which he had managed studiously to avoid. The excerpts from the speech which appear in Cabot's Memoir, the only known source, suggest the high level of ambiguity which characterized Emerson's thinking on the subject at that time. His major concern was not so much th…
Emerson's Antislavery Writings
Historical background letter to Martin Van Buren An on the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies anniversary of West Indian emancipation letter to William Rotch antislavery speech at Dedham letter to the kidnapping committee antislavery remarks at Worcester letter to Mary Merrick Brooks Address to the Citizens of Concord on the Fugitive Slave Law the Fugitive Slave Law lecture on slavery assault on Charles Sumner Kansas relief me…
Virtue's Hero
This title offers a look at Emerson's views on slavery and abolition. Scholars have long debated the question of Ralph Waldo Emerson's relationship to the abolition movement and the degree of his commitment to the antislavery cause. Some early commentators depicted Emerson as an active social reformer, while others have seen him as a contemplative dreamer, serenely aloof from frenetic reform activity. In Virtue's Hero', Len Gougeon draws on a hug…
Coordinates of Anglo-American Romanticism
Constructing a transatlantic arc of literature, Brantley explores how John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards provide an empirical as well as evangelical framework for interpreting their spiritual descendants, Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson. He finds that the four Anglo-American writers share a simultaneously rational and sensationalist reliance on experience as the avenue to knowledge. Wesley (1703-91), founder of British Methodism, and Edwards…
Emerson and Abolition
Abolition, the Emersons, and 1837
EMERSON'S first antislavery speech was delivered late in November 1837. It was his first public statement on a social problem which had by then reached near crisis proportions and one which he had managed studiously to avoid. The excerpts from the speech which appear in Cabot's Memoir, the only known source, suggest the high level of ambiguity which characterized Emerson's thinking on the subject at that time. His major concern was not so much th…
Emerson and Abolition
Emerson, Carlyle, and the Civil War
RALPH WALDO EMERSON and Thomas Carlyle are undoubtedly one of literature's best-known odd couples. As Ralph Rusk so aptly notes, even though the two immediately became fast, and enduring, friends upon first meeting Edinburgh 1833, they were in thought and character, plainly separated by a gap that could never be bridged.' The differences between them were both philosophical and temperamental. A transcendental idealist and optimist, Emerson held t…
Virtue's Hero
This title offers a look at Emerson's views on slavery and abolition. Scholars have long debated the question of Ralph Waldo Emerson's relationship to the abolition movement and the degree of his commitment to the antislavery cause. Some early commentators depicted Emerson as an active social reformer, while others have seen him as a contemplative dreamer, serenely aloof from frenetic reform activity. In Virtue's Hero', Len Gougeon draws on a hug…
Virtue's Hero
Virtue's Hero
Virtue's Hero
Samuel Joseph May and the Dilemmas of the Liberal Persuasion, 1797-1871
Journal Article Samuel Joseph May and the Dilemmas of the Liberal Persuasion, 1797–1871. By Donald Yacovone. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. xii + 262 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-87722-760-8.) Get access Samuel Joseph May and the Dilemmas of the Liberal Persuasion, 1797–1871. By Yacovone Donald. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. xii + 262 pp. $44.95, ISBN 0-87722-760-8.) Len Gougeon Len Gougeon University of Scranton Search for o…
Virtue's Hero
Journal Article Virtue's Hero: Emerson, Antislavery, and Reform. By Len Gougeon. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990. xvi + 408 pp. $45.00.) Get access Wesley T. Mott Wesley T. Mott Worcester Polytechnic Institute Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 662–663, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080101 Published: 01 September 1992
Holmes's Emerson and the Conservative Critique of Realism
Coordinates of Anglo-American Romanticism
Constructing a transatlantic arc of literature, Brantley explores how John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards provide an empirical as well as evangelical framework for interpreting their spiritual descendants, Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson. He finds that the four Anglo-American writers share a simultaneously rational and sensationalist reliance on experience as the avenue to knowledge. Wesley (1703-91), founder of British Methodism, and Edwards…
The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau
The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is intended as an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting essays by a distinguished array of contributors, the Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings like A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, on the monumental Walden, or on his assorted journals and later books. It also serves in some ways as a b…
Emerson's Antislavery Writings
Emerson's Antislavery Writings
Historical background letter to Martin Van Buren An on the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies anniversary of West Indian emancipation letter to William Rotch antislavery speech at Dedham letter to the kidnapping committee antislavery remarks at Worcester letter to Mary Merrick Brooks Address to the Citizens of Concord on the Fugitive Slave Law the Fugitive Slave Law lecture on slavery assault on Charles Sumner Kansas relief me…
God's Government Begun
Emerson and the Woman Question
N a newspaper article celebrating the one-hundredth anniversary of Emerson's birth, Thomas Wentworth Higginson complained those who knew Mr. Emerson in the light of a reformer, as he surely did, would find precious little information given in direction by his biographers.' Noting the generally conservative character of the two most influential and popular biographies of Emerson, those by Oliver Wendell Holmes and James Elliot Cabot,2 Higginson wa…
From Emerson to King
Patterson offers an exploration of Emerson's contribution to the national debate on democracy, race, and social reform. Emerson's writings, she contests, reveal a consistent pattern of contradiction between fundamental individual rights and race as a factor impossible to dismiss in a consideration of democratic values: ownership, nonconformity, freedom. She traces Emerson's legacy through the writing of African-American intellectuals of succeedin…
Militant Abolitionism
This essay, relying on a wealth of original sources, reveals for the first time the dynamic and personal relationship that evolved between Fredrick Douglass and Ralph Waldo Emerson from 1844 until the onset of the Civil War as they mounted a militant campaign against the heinous institution of slavery
Mr. Emerson's Revolution
The Mr. Emerson to which this volume pays tribute is a figure so ensconced in America's intellectual framework that we sometimes forget how iconoclastic he actually was.In his essays, Emerson fought intolerance, extolled imagination over doctrine, indicted fundamentalism, and demystified American exceptionalism.Simply put, Emerson was a Disturber of the Peace -an anti-honorific to which history has attached a gold star.When closely examined along…
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