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Building their own Waldos : Emerson's first biographers and the politics of life-writing in the Gilded Age
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Building their own Waldos : Emerson's first biographers and the politics of life-writing in the Gilded Age

Robert D. Habich

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Introduction: building their own Waldos
A genre in transition: biography in the 1880s
An act of wholesome and pure-hearted admiration: Emerson's first biographer, George Willis Cooke
Biographers and the pornographer: Conway, Ireland, and "Emerson and his friends"
Diagnosing the gentle iconoclast: Dr. Holmes on Emerson
Authorizing Emerson's biography: Cabot and/or Edward Emerson
Shelf life: the legacy of Emerson's first biographies.

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Building their own Waldos : Emerson's first biographers and the politics of life-writing in the Gilded Age by Robert D. Habich. ISBN 9781587299636. Published by University of Iowa Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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