Beschreibung:
Sean Ross Meehan
Counters the view of the late Emerson's decline by rethinking his engagement with liberal education and his intellectual relation to Whitman, William James, Charles Eliot, and Du Bois.
Introduction: Late Emerson and the Recomposition of Liberal Education"Natural Method of Mental Philosophy": William James's Principles of Pedagogy"Education": Charles W. Eliot's Invention of the University"Poetry and Imagination": Rhetorical Exercises in Walt Whitman's Gymnasium"Eloquence": Lessons in Emerson's Rhetoric of MetonymyConclusion: Du Bois and the Double Consciousness of the CollegeNotesBibliographyIndex