Glad to the Brink of Fear: A Portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson

by James Marcus

An engaging reassessment of the celebrated essayist and his relevance to contemporary readers

More than two centuries after his birth, Ralph Waldo Emerson remains one of the presiding spirits in American culture. Yet his reputation as the starry-eyed prophet of self-reliance has obscured a much more complicated figure who spent a lifetime wrestling with injustice, philosophy, art, desire, and suffering. James Marcus introduces readers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691254338
• ISBN13: 9780691254333
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"