Emerson's Mature Essays - AAALB014A

• Title: Emerson's Mature Essays
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2013
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (1)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Guarantor: David Lee Robbins, Ph.D.
• Is interchangeable with: AAA500366

Annotation

Emerson's Mature Essays: The Conduct of Life (1860), Society and Solitude (1870), and Letters and Social Aims
(1876)
How Emerson's thinking matured after 1850, with personal development and changing conditions. The
lecture/seminar will examine developments and divergences from, comparisons and contrasts with, Emerson's
thinking and writing prior to 1850--namely Nature (1836), Essays First Series (1841), and Essays Second Series
(1844).
1) Emerson, "Spiritual Laws" (1841) and "Experience" (1844)
2) Emerson, "Art" (1841) and "Poetry" (1844)
3) Emerson, "Self-Reliance" (1841) and "The Method of Nature (1841)
4) Emerson, "Politics" (1844) and "New England Reformers (1844)
5) Emerson, "Morals" (1859)
6) Emerson, "Fate" (1860) and "Power" (1860)
7) Emerson, "Considerations by the Way" (1860) and "Illusions" (1860)
8) Emerson, "Poetry and Imagination" (1876)
9) "Natural History of Intellect" (1893)
10) Emerson as Pragmatist
11) Emerson as Modernist
12) Emerson and Nietzsche

Last update: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (21.01.2014)