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“You Are the Book's Book”Robert Richardson's Emersonian Workshop

“You Are the Book's Book”Robert Richardson's Emersonian Workshop R e v i ew s “You Are the Book’s Book” Rober t Richardson’s Emersonian Workshop First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process. By Robert D. Richardson. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2009. Sean Ross Meehan Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001: 60) practiced what he called, thinking of the scholar’s use of books, “creative reading.” Within the last thirty years, one of the most attentive followers of Emerson’s scholastically creative reading has been Robert D. Richardson. Richardson’s intellectual biography, Emerson: The Mind on Fire (1995), is demonstrably Emersonian in the ways the biog - rapher remains on the lookout for all we can learn from this writer’s reading of the world. Richardson’s biographical study furthers a critical reassessment of Emerson, advanced since the 1970s by scholars such as Joel Porte (2001) and Richard Poirier (1987), where Emerson is recovered from dismissal as genteel philosopher of mere romanticism and returned to the domain of the writer and rhetorician: in Joel Porte’s (2001: 684) phrasing, we return to Emerson’s “imaginative materials and structures of his writing . . . the remarkable consistencies of his conceiving mind and executing hand.” In his most recent book, First We Read, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Pedagogy Duke University Press

“You Are the Book's Book”Robert Richardson's Emersonian Workshop

Meehan, Sean Ross
Pedagogy , Volume 11 (1) – Jan 1, 2011
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R e v i ew s “You Are the Book’s Book” Rober t Richardson’s Emersonian Workshop First We Read, Then We Write: Emerson on the Creative Process. By Robert D. Richardson. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2009. Sean Ross Meehan Ralph Waldo Emerson (2001: 60) practiced what he called, thinking of the scholar’s use of books, “creative reading.” Within the last thirty years, one of the most attentive followers of Emerson’s scholastically creative reading has been Robert D. Richardson. Richardson’s intellectual biography, Emerson: The Mind on Fire (1995), is demonstrably Emersonian in the ways the biog - rapher remains on the lookout for all we can learn from this writer’s reading of the world. Richardson’s biographical study furthers a critical reassessment of Emerson, advanced since the 1970s by scholars such as Joel Porte (2001) and Richard Poirier (1987), where Emerson is recovered from dismissal as genteel philosopher of mere romanticism and returned to the domain of the writer and rhetorician: in Joel Porte’s (2001: 684) phrasing, we return to Emerson’s “imaginative materials and structures of his writing . . . the remarkable consistencies of his conceiving mind and executing hand.” In his most recent book, First We Read,

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