The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph H. Orth, Chief Editor
"A substantial addition to the tools the present generation of
scholars has been and will be provided for reading and coming to
terms with the development of Emerson's thought."--Nineteenth
Century Prose
"The editors have done an excellent, thorough job of
source-hunting, annotating, translating, indexing, and
cross-indexing the many references to the essays and other
journals. Emerson scholars are already immensely indebted to the
previous scrupulous editorial labors of Susan Sutton Smith and
Ralph Orth, and these volumes are the continuation of their
splendid work on the journals."--American Literature
"The Topical Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson will provide a
valuable resource for detailed study of the critically neglected
last three decades of Emerson's career, and they will hold a wealth
of material especially for those wishing to track the fate of
Emerson's characteristic themes and interests into his later work,
or to study his working methods and creative processes.--Journal
of English and Germanic Philology
Volume 1
Edited by Susan Sutton Smith
Published here for the first time are seven of Emerson's topical notebooks,
which served as a source for his lectures, essays, and books of the 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s.
Concerned primarily with nature, art, philosophy, American culture, and his
contemporaries, the notebooks presented in this volume afford fascinating insight
into Emerson's creative practices.
1990. 360 pp. 6 1/8 x 9 1/4. Biblio. Appendix. Index. Illus.
ISBN 0-8262-0730-8. $42.50s.
Volume 2
Edited by Ronald A. Bosco
Among the highlights of the five notebooks in Volume 2,
"Orientalist" provides an unusual opportunity to view closely
Emerson's adaptation of Eastern thought.
1993. 432 pp. 6 1/8 x 9 1/4. Biblio. Indexes. Appendixes. Illus.
ISBN 0-8262-0858-4. $49.95s.
Volume 3
Edited by Glen Martin Johnson
Volume 3 completes the series that brings twelve
of Emerson's topical notebooks and four other notebooks into
print for the first time. In this final volume, Glen Martin
Johnson presents four of the topical notebooks dating from the
mid 1840s through the early 1870s, the end of Emerson's
productive life. Each of the four notebooks illustrates some of the many uses
Emerson made of these collections of quotations and ideas: OP
Gulistan is a compendium of biographical information and
anecdotes about dozens of Emerson's acquaintances; S Salvage
takes stock of and preserves parts of his earlier writings; ZO
was used in preparing the lectures that became "Poetry and
Imagination"; and ML was employed for extensive notes on the
moral law and religion, and as a resource in preparing lectures
and readings during the late 1860s.
1994. 392 pp. 6 1/8 x 9 1/4. Biblio. Index. Appendix. Illus.
ISBN 0-8262-0951-3. $49.95s.
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edited by Ralph H. Orth, Albert J. von Frank, Linda Allardt, and David
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