Albert J. von Frank

Albert J. von Frank's Emerson Chronology is a staggering work of meticulous research and deserves a place on the bookshelf of anyone who studies Emerson's life and writings. Von Frank has scoured Emerson's journals, letters, and account books, as well as contemporaneous newspapers and other materials to make it possible for a reader to determine what was happening in Emerson's life on nearly any given day. Readers should be advised, this is not a narrative biography. It takes a minimal interpretive stance and instead attempts to account for as much minutia of Emerson's day-to-day life as possible within two volumes. This newly expanded edition will make the work of students, biographers, and literary critics easier and the act of reading Emerson all the more meaningful and pleasurable .… (mehr)

Albert J. von Frank's Emerson Chronology is a staggering work of meticulous research and deserves a place on the bookshelf of anyone who studies Emerson's life and writings. Von Frank has scoured Emerson's journals, letters, and account books, as well as contemporaneous newspapers and other materials to make it possible for a reader to determine what was happening in Emerson's life on nearly any given day. Readers should be advised, this is not a narrative biography. It takes a minimal interpretive stance and instead attempts to account for as much minutia of Emerson's day-to-day life as possible within two volumes. This newly expanded edition will make the work of students, biographers, and literary critics easier and the act of reading Emerson all the more meaningful and pleasurable .… (mehr)