An Emerson Chronology, Von Frank Albert J.

The first edition of An Emerson Chronology appeared in 1994. The long-awaited, thoroughly revised, much-expanded second edition of this indispensable reference work runs to more than 1100 pages, comprising two volumes. This is the first volume of the two-volume edition.

Praise for An Emerson Chronology

This new, expanded edition of the Emerson Chronology is the best thing to happen in Emerson studies since the completion of the Collected Works. An invaluable tool for all Emerson scholars, this authoritative resource serves as a concise, detailed, and easily accessible blueprint for the life of one of Americas greatest writers. No nineteenth-century collection should be without it.

- Len Gougeon, Distinguished Professor of American Literature, University of Scranton, author of Virtues Hero: Emerson, Antislavery, and Reform

The Emerson Chronology provides an invaluable detailed account of Emersons publishing career, his travels and lecturing, his relations with family and famous contemporaries, his reading, health-history, home-life, and friendships. In so doing, it recreates the architecture of Emersons life so that we may clothe it with whatever Emerson is ours. Revised and nearly doubled in size from the 1994 edition, this is a model of the type and an essential work for anyone studying Emerson and his period.

- Joel Myerson, Carolina Distinguished Professor of American Literature, Emeritus, University of South Carolina.

An Emerson Chronology has long been an indispensable aid to every serious scholar of the Concord Sage. Now, in this expanded edition, Albert von Frank enriches our appreciation of Emersons works and days with a wider view of his social circle in Concord, Boston, and beyond, with pertinent extracts from letters and journals about the leading events of the times, with comments by friends and critics about his essays and lectures, and with the stuff of life that transforms a chronology into a subtle and dense biography. Bank notes and books, sick children, desperate friends, prating politicians, inspiring prophets, people everywhere in search of guidance and meaning, and ideas bursting from the page: these herbs and apples of Emersons days come before us to savor and ponder, each one a diadem. This is a volume with new insights and connections to be discovered with every reading. We are all in von Franks debt.

- Robert A. Gross, Professor of History Emeritus, University of Connecticut, author of The Minutemen and Their World and of the forthcoming Transcendentalists and Their World