Emerson & Thoreau

This lively volume explores the theme of friendship in the lives and works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. Written from diverse perspectives, the essays offer close readings of selected texts and draw on letters and journals to offer a comprehensive view of how Emerson's and Thoreau's friendships took root and bolstered their individual political, social, and ethical projects. This collection explores how Emerson and Thoreau, in their own ways, conceived of friendship as the creation of shared meaning in light of personal differences, tragedy and loss, and changing life circumstances.Emerson and Thoreaupresents important reflections on the role of friendship in the lives of individuals and in global culture.

John T. Lysaker is Professor and Head of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. He is author of Emerson and Self-Culture (IUP, 2008).

William Rossi is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in English at the University of Oregon. He is editor of Walden and Resistance to Civil Government and several volumes of Thoreau's works, including Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings and Journal, volumes 3 and 6.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Abbreviations for Emerson, Thoreau, and Carlyle Citations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Transcendental Contexts
Transcendental Friendship: An Oxymoron?	p. 17
Forgiving the Giver: Emerson, Carlyle, Thoreau	p. 33
Emerson's "Friendship"
"In the Golden Hour of Friendship": Transcendentalism and Utopian Desire	p. 53
Emerson and Skepticism: A Reading of "Friendship"	p. 70
On the Faces of Emersonian "Friendship"	p. 86
Thoreao's Divergent Melodies
"In Dreams Awake": Loss, Transcendental Friendship, and Elegy	p. 107
"Let Him Be to Me a Spirit": Paradoxes of True Friendship in Emerson and Thoreau	p. 127
Giving Friendship for Life
Giving Friendship: The Perichoresis of an All-Embracing Service	p. 151
Leaving and Bequeathing: Friendship, Moral Perfectionism, and the Gleam of Light	p. 172
Works Cited	p. 187
List of Contributors	p. 195
Index	p. 197
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