Building their own Waldos [electronic resource] : Emerson's first biographers and the politics of life-writing in the Gilded Age / by Robert D. Habich.
Material type: TextPublication details: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2011.Description: xxviii, 186 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 814/.3 B 22
- PS1631 .H28 2011
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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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.