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Joel Porte

Author of Emerson's Prose and Poetry [Norton Critical Edition]

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Joel Porte is Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters Emeritus, Cornell University.

Works by Joel Porte

Emerson's Prose and Poetry [Norton Critical Edition] (2001) — Editor — 113 copies

The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson (1999) 31 copies

Representative Man: Ralph Waldo Emerson in His Time (1979) 17 copies

The Romance in America: Studies in Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and James (1969) 9 copies

Emerson: Prospect and Retrospect (1982) 7 copies

Consciousness and Culture: Emerson and Thoreau Reviewed (2004) 6 copies

New essays on 'The portrait of a lady' (1990) 6 copies

Emerson and Thoreau; transcendentalists in conflict - Africa (1966) 4 copies

In Respect to Egotism: Studies in American Romantic Writing (1991) 2 copies

Emerson-Essays and Lectures 1 copy

Associated Works

Essays and Lectures (1983) — Editor — 1,116 copies, 2 reviews

Interpretations of poetry and religion (1990) — Introduction, some editions — 98 copies

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Works: 10
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Members: 196
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Rating: 4.1

ISBNs: 23
Languages: 1

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