Habich, Robert D., 1951-

Building their own Waldos Emerson's first biographers and the politics of life-writing in the Gilded Age / [electronic resource] : by Robert D. Habich. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2011. - xxviii, 186 p.

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.


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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 --Criticism and interpretation--History.


Authors, American--Biography--History and criticism.
American prose literature--History and criticism.
Biography as a literary form.


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