François Brunet et Anne Wicke éds. L’œuvre en prose de Ralph Waldo Emerson

Appearing in the bicentennial year of Emerson’s birth, in connection with the inclusion of Emerson’s work as one of the set texts in the Agrégation, the volume of critical essays edited by François Brunet and Anne Wicke would seem to give official recognition to Emerson’s stature as a founding figure in American literature and culture, though the special number of RFEA devoted to Emerson in 2002 had already signaled a wide-spread interest in Emerson among French academics. Nevertheless, as no...