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Richardson, Robert D., 1934-2020, author.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Family.
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Family.
James, William, 1842-1910 -- Family.
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
Loss (Psychology) in literature
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Three roads back : how Emerson, Thoreau, and William James responded to the greatest losses of their lives / Robert D. Richardson ; with a foreword by Megan Marshall.
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Richardson, Robert D., 1934-2020, author.
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023]
Subjects
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Family.
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Family.
James, William, 1842-1910 -- Family.
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
Loss (Psychology) in literature
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9780691224305 (hardcover) :
0691224307 (hardcover)
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xix, 108 pages ; 19 cm
Contents:
Building his own world -- I will be a naturalist -- The gallantry of the private heart -- The green world -- Regeneration through nature -- The cup that my father gives me -- I had hoped to be spared this -- On every side is depth unfathomable -- Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually -- Death is the law of new life -- My friend is my real brother -- Emerson commissions a book review -- Our own limits transgressed -- The death of Minny Temple -- Minny and Henry -- Minny and William -- From panic and despair to the acceptance of free will -- The self-governing resistance of the ego to the world.
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"This book explores resilience by tracing the linked stories of how Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William James dealt with personal tragedy: for Emerson, the death of his young wife and, eleven years later, his five-year-old son; for Thoreau, the death of his brother; and for James, the death of his beloved cousin Minny. Weaving together biographical detail with quotations from the writers' journals and letters, Richardson shows readers how each of these writers grappled with loss and grief and ultimately achieved a level of resilience. Emerson lost his Unitarian faith but found solace in the study of nature; Thoreau leaned on the natural world's capacity for regeneration, and the comparatively small role played by individual persons; James lit upon a notion of self-governance and emotional malleability that would underwrite much of his work as a psychologist and philosopher. All three, Richardson suggests, emerged from their grief with a new way of seeing, one shaped by a belief in, as Emerson would write, "the deep remedial force that underlies all facts.""--
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Hawaii State Library
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818.309 Ri
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05/18/2024
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