Treating the sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson as an autobiographical text, this book establishes that his years in the pulpit were pivotal and that his sermons are key texts in revealing the essential development of his thought, particularly his conception of self-reliance and the heroic ideal.
A study of American women's narratives of mobility and travel. It examines how geographic movement opened up other movements or mobilities for antebellum women at a time of great national expansion. It demonstrates how women not only went out on the open road, but participated in public discussions of nationhood in the texts they wrote.
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