Emerson for the Twenty-First Century
Global Perspectives on an American Icon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9330688 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Johnson (0000-0002-1114-6406), R Roy Johnson (College of Idaho, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 698-699 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | ISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1076-0962 • E-ISSN: 1759-1090 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/isle/isr065 |
| OpenAlex | W2076090500 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
Barry Tharaud's welcome collection of twenty essays by both well-established and lesser known scholars contains no single essay that claims to revise “ecocritical” approaches to Emerson. Nonetheless, ISLE readers who spend any time teaching Emerson (to say nothing of researching him) will find this volume indispensible. Readers will encounter some essays on themes familiar to studies of Emerson, but even treatments of seemingly well-worn topics complicate prevalent assumptions concerning Emerson and his work. The essays are grouped into four sections, one on influences (primarily European, but also Asian and Middle Eastern), another on science, a third on philosophical and intellectual developments, and the last on activism. All sections feature strong scholarship, but a few pieces warrant particular mention here for their engagement with the topics of nature and natural history. T. S. McMillin fruitfully explores Emerson's English Traits in order to uncover conflicting views of nature, not so as to resolve them but, more helpfully, to explain Emerson's maturing understanding of the distinctions between concepts of “nature” and “culture.” Michael P. Branch's piece will be especially useful to the scores of teachers who use Emerson's Nature in the classroom; through close readings of five of Emerson's early essays on natural history, Branch works through three of the thornier passages in “the thicket of Nature” (226), providing practical ways to approach often elusive Emersonian concepts. David M. Robinson's discussion of Emerson's encounters with British science (Owen, Faraday, and Lyell, especially) and Laura Dassow Walls's astute analysis of his admiration of the work of Faraday together illuminate Emerson's pursuits of the convergence of scientific fact, individual will, and moral truth
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| Citations per year | 0.39 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |