TY - BOOK AU - Habich,Robert D. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Building their own Waldos: Emerson's first biographers and the politics of life-writing in the Gilded Age AV - PS1631 .H28 2011eb U1 - 814/.3B 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Iowa City PB - University of Iowa Press KW - Emerson, Ralph Waldo, KW - Authors, American KW - Biography KW - History and criticism KW - American prose literature KW - Biography as a literary form KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10456431 ER -