Emerson : At Home and Abroad
Boston: James R Osgood and Company, 1882.
First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Item #15569
Both hinges started but holding,1/4" tear and fraying to spine head, edgeworn, tone, pencil margin lining, otherwise light wear. Still serviceable and solid hardcover. ; Fascinating biography of Emerson published just after his death by Virginia-born Conway, a preacher and radical writer deeply influenced by Transcendentalism, who began a long friendship with Emerson while attending Harvard Divinity School in 1853-54. Conway was perhaps the South's most prominent abolitionist, and spent most of his career exiled in the safety of the North or as an expatriate in England and France. "Conway's biography was more comprehensive of Emerson's milieu and contemporaries, as well as a relentlessly impressionistic study that placed Conway prominently at Emerson's side. ... Conway's emotional connection to the Emersons would prove to be a blessing and a curse to him as biographer: if it established bona fides as a family insider, it also threatened his credibility by making his prose maudlin and excessive." - Robert D. Habich; Building Their Own Waldos: Emerson’s First Biographers and the Politics of Life-Writing in the Gilded Age; pages 59-60. First US Edition, First Printing (of 1500 copies) of this early, revealing Emerson biography.; 383 pages.
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