Studies), and independent scholar/documentary filmmaker, is the editor of Mr. Emerson's Revolution. Mudge has written four books and several articles, among them Emily Dickinson and the Image of Home (University of Massachusetts Press, 1975; 2nd ed., 1976), which discussed Emerson's influence on Dickinson. Her award-winning documentary series on early American writers, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe has been shown on PBS, in leading festivals, and in U.S. embassies. Funded by several grants, including one from the Emerson Society, she began this collaborative book project in 2002. She has also written a documentary script about Emerson. At the American Literature Association in 2012, she presented a paper on "The Emerson-Lincoln Relationship". Mudge has recently edited the posthumous work of her husband, ecumenical ethicist Lewis Mudge, We
This collection of newly commissioned essays maps the vital contextual backgrounds to Ralph Waldo Emerson's life and work. The volume begins with a detailed chronology of Emerson's life and publishing history, setting the stage for a wide-ranging discussion of his geographic and environmental contexts from early and later life, including his travels and intellectual encounters with the United States, Europe and Asia. It goes on to survey the intellectual terrain of the nineteenth century, exploring Emerson's relationship with key philosophical, aesthetic, theological, scientific, familial, social and political contexts and issues. Finally, it assesses the popular and critical receptions that have solidified Emerson's legacy as a towering figure in American literature, criticism and culture today. Fans, students and scholars will turn to this reference time and again for a fuller understanding of this seminal American writer.
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