Consciousness and Culture: Emerson and Thoreau Reviewed by Joel Porte
By Joel Porte
Emerson and Thoreau are the main celebrated bizarre couple of nineteenth-century American literature. showing to play the jobs of benign mentor and keen disciple, they could even be noticeable as sour opponents: America’s most effective literary statesman, protecting of his attractiveness, and an bold and infrequently refractory protégé. the reality, Joel Porte continues, is that Emerson and Thoreau have been complementary literary geniuses, at the same time inspiring and inspired.
In this ebook of essays, Porte specializes in Emerson and Thoreau as writers. He lines their person achievements and their issues of intersection, arguing that either males, ranging from a shared trust within the value of self-culture,” produced a physique of writing that helped movement a decidedly provincial New England readership into the wider enviornment of foreign tradition. it's a booklet that would attract all readers drawn to the writings of Emerson and Thoreau.
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