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1 online resource (viii, 280 pages) |
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Science language |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-271) and index. |
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The Sphinx at the crossroads -- Converting the world: knowledge, science, power -- Gnomic science: the body and the law -- Global polarity and the single life -- Truth against the world -- The solar eye of science. |
| Summary |
"Ralph Waldo Emerson has traditionally been cast as a dreamer and a mystic, concerned with the ideals of transcendentalism rather than the realities of contemporary science and technology. In Laura Dassow Walls's view Emerson was a leader of the secular avant-garde in his day. He helped to establish science as the popular norm of truth in the United States and to modernize American popular thought. In addition, he became a hero to a post-Darwinian generation of Victorian Dissenters, exemplifying the strong connection between transcendentalism and later nineteenth-century science." |
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"In Emerson's Life in Science, she makes the case that no study of literary history can be complete without embracing science as part of literature. Conversely, she maintains, no history of science is complete unless we consider the role played by writers of literature who helped to install science in the popular imagination."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Knowledge and learning -- Science.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882. |
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Literature and science -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and science. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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19th century |
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Science in literature.
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Science in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Walls, Laura Dassow. Emerson's life in science. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2003 0801440440 (DLC) 2002151358 (OCoLC)50773288 |
| ISBN |
9781501717390 (electronic book) |
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1501717391 (electronic book) |
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0801440440 |
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9780801440441 |
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