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"A strong present tense": Emerson and The Times of London.(Ralph Waldo Emerson)(Critical essay)

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From: ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)
Date: 20070601
Author:Shaw, Jonathan Imber

Ralph Waldo Emerson lived and wrote some of his most famous lectures and essays during an intense period of upheaval, both at home and abroad, in which a previously unimaginable diversity of bodies sought legally sanctioned recognition and direct political participation. In the same decade in which Emerson's famous Essays (1841) and Essays, Second Series (1844) were published, Frederick Douglass made his forceful entree into the public debate on slavery in 1841 and Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized the first national Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls in ...

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