Emerson in His Sermons

Emerson in His Sermons
Author: Susan L. Roberson
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1995
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780826209832

Treating the sermons extensively as an autobiographical text, Roberson establishes that Emerson's years in the pulpit were pivotal and that his sermons are key texts in revealing the essential development of his thought. Central to Roberson's explication of the sermons is Emerson's conception of self-reliance, his invention of a new hero for a new age, and his merging of his own identity with that heroic ideal.