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A Power to Translate the World: New Essays on Emerson and International Culture

edited by David LaRocca and Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso

Dartmouth College Press, 2016
eISBN: 978-1-61168-830-6 | Cloth: 978-1-61168-828-3 | Paper: 978-1-61168-829-0
Library of Congress Classification PS1638.P69 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 814.3

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC

ABOUT THIS BOOK

This thought-provoking collection gathers a roster of seasoned Emerson scholars to address anew the way non-American writers and texts influenced Emerson, while also discussing the manner in which Emerson’s writings influenced a diverse array of non-American authors. This volume includes new, original, and engaging research on crucial topics that have for the most part been absent from recent critical literature. While the motivations for this project will be familiar to scholars of literary studies and the history of philosophy, its topics, themes, and texts are distinctly novel. A Power to Translate the World provides a touchstone for a new generation of scholars trying to orient themselves to Emerson’s ongoing relevance to global literature and philosophy.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

DAVID LAROCCA is visiting scholar in the Department of English at Cornell University and lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the College at Cortland, State University of New York. RICARDO MIGUEL-ALFONSO is associate professor of American literature in the Department of Modern Philology at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.

REVIEWS

“The essays call into question origins, intention, and cause and effect. As this collection attests, Emerson is as important in an age of globalization as he was in an age of colonization. . . . Recommended.”—Choice

“The longing to be, not inter- or between-nations, but in some deep sense beyond the limits of nationhood, prevails throughout the book. But while this book does not offer a coherent perspective, it invigorates by means of sudden discoveries, cross-connections, overlaps, and gaps, as each of these "prismatic" essays reflects the question afresh.”—Review 19

“These essays add to our understanding of Emerson and his afterlife, and they demonstrate there is much yet to learn about his relationship with England, but they accrue still more value by broadening the cartography of Emerson studies to such an extent.”—American Literary History

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction: Thinking Through International Influence—David LaRocca and Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso • EMERSON BEYOND BORDERS IN HIS TIME • The Anti-Slave from Emerson to Obama—Donald E. Pease • Emerson, the Indian Brahmo Samaj, and the American Reception of Gandhi—David M. Robinson • Transcendentalist Triangulations: The American Goethe and His Female Disciples—Monika M. Elbert • Emerson, Great Britain, and the International Struggle for the Rights of the Workingman—Len Gougeon • An “Extempore Adventurer” in Italy: Emerson as International Tourist, 1832–1833—Robert D. Habich • EMERSON AND GLOBAL MODERNITY • “Eternal Allusion”: Maeterlinck’s Readings of Emerson’s Somatic Semiotics—David LaRocca • Emerson in Germany, 1850–1933: Appreciation and Appropriation—Herwig Friedl • Transcendental Modernism: Vicente Huidobro’s Emersonian Poetics—Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso • Rilke and Emerson: The Case against Influence as Such—Richard Deming • Emerson; or, The Critic—The Arnoldian Ideal—K. L. Evans • The “Whole” Conduct of Life: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry James—Daniel Rosenberg Nutters • EMERSON AND THE FAR EAST • Emerson and Japan: Finding a Way of Cultural Criticism—Naoko Saito • Emerson and China—Neal Dolan and Laura Jane Wey • Confucius and Emerson on the Virtue of Self-Reliance—Mathew A. Foust • EMERSON AND THE NEAR EAST • Emerson and Some Jewish Questions—Kenneth S. Sacks • Emerson and Jewish Readers—David Mikics • Middle Eastern–American Literature: A Contemporary Turn in Emerson Studies—Roger Sedarat • Acknowledgments • Abbreviations • Contributors • Index

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