... material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's earthy opposite," as Lawrence Buell characterizes this convention--has thrived, particularly in the greening of literary studies known as ecocriticism. (3) To ... a trait or knack; learning metonomy is life. Provocation. Each is potentially great." (38) If life for Emerson is a process of nature's writing, an ongoing form of natural biography anticipati...

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... workers. In July 1892 the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steelworkers refused to accept pay cuts and went on strike in Homestead, Pennsylvania. Henry C. Frick, the president of Carnegie Steel Company, closed the plant. Shortly thereafter, Frick tried to protect the plant by hiring three hundred ... saw the dramatic events at Homestead as a good opportunity to further the anarchist cause. Especially Alexander Berkman was shocked by the ruthless brutality of Henry Clay Frick and saw the chance to promote the anarchist conceptions. This is distinct in a quote from Berkmans "Prison Mem...

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