Transatlantic Exchanges and the Shifting “Geography of the Word”
Two New Letters from Emerson to Carlyle
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16309699 |
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| Authors | Tim Sommer (0000-0002-0039-3962, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 265-281 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-21 |
| 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_a_00891 |
| OpenAlex | W3170197013 |
| Language | EN |
This essay prints two previously unpublished letters from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Thomas Carlyle and contextualizes them against the background of the transatlantic collaboration between the two writers, shedding new light on their exchange of books and manuscripts between Boston and London during the second third of the nineteenth century
Art · Art history · Literature · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · Classics · Historical and Literary Studies · History
| Highly cited | No |
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