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Source: The Atlantic

11/9/2021

Emerson Never Practiced the Self-Reliance He Preached

by Mark Greif

Historian Robert A. Gross's new "The Transcendentalists and Their World" sets the famous experiments in living of Emerson and Thoreau in the social context of the town of Concord, through which the writers understood the shocks of modernization.

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Emerson Never Practiced the Self-Reliance He Preached

by Mark Greif