Performing Loss, Elegy, and Transcendental Friendship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16304304 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William Rossi (William Rossi, Associate Professor of English at the University of Oregon and an editor of the Journal in the Princeton University Press edition of Thoreau's writings, is the author of essays on Thoreau, Emerson, and nineteenth-century natural science. He is editor most recently of the Norton Critical Edition of “Walden,” “Civil Disobedience,“ and Other Writings (2008)., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 252-277 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The New England Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/tneq.2008.81.2.252 |
| OpenAlex | W1966618749 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Like friendships among other transcendentalists, that between Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau was complicated by loss and grief. Three highly charged moments (1842–49) in their relationship shed new light on Thoreau's capacity for intimacy, his alternative theory of transcendental friendship, and his emergence as a major American writer
Art · Elegy · Epistemology · Friendship · Grief · Literature · Poetry · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Transcendental number · American Literature and Culture · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Thoreau and American Literature
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |