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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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.