An Emerson Chronology

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The first edition of An Emerson Chronology appeared in 1994. The long-awaited, thoroughly revised, much-expanded second edition of this indispensable reference work runs to more than 1100 pages, comprising two volumes. This is the second volume of the two-volume edition. Praise for An Emerson Chronology : "This new, expanded edition of the Emerson Chronology is the best thing to happen in Emerson studies since the completion of the Collected Works. An invaluable tool for all Emerson scholars, this authoritative resource serves as a concise, detailed, and easily accessible blueprint for the life of one of America's greatest writers. No nineteenth-century collection should be without it." - Len Gougeon, Distinguished Professor of American Literature, University of Scranton, author of Virtue's Hero: Emerson, Antislavery, and Reform "The Emerson Chronology provides an invaluable detailed account of Emerson's publishing career, his travels and lecturing, his relations with family and famous contemporaries, his reading, health-history, home-life, and friendships. In so doing, it recreates the architecture of Emerson's life so that we may clothe it with whatever Emerson is 'ours.' Revise…