Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-217) and index.
Contents
An individualism of vaporous spirituality -- The aroma of personality and the dignity of clean living -- The undersexed valetudinarian : Emerson and modern criticism -- William James and the varieties of Emerson -- W.E.B. Du Bois and the implications of pragmatism -- Inclusiveness without redundancy : William Carlos Williams in the Emersonian grain -- Emersonian refractions.