Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century America by Mary Louise Kete (review)

death offered uniformly positive reports of Concord's sage (276). Later biographers emphasized Emerson's "adaptations" of the thinking ofworld famous philosophers such as Plato, Coleridge, and Goethe (277). The psychological portrait of Emerson, published by Professor Stephen Whicher in 1953, still remains influential today. Bosco argues that "serious study" remains to be completed on the part of Emerson's late career that has been lost to the "present generation" mostly due to Whicher's influence of valuing only Emerson's work from the period 1830-1860 (277-79, 283). Fortunately the new volume, The Later Lectures ofRalph WaUh Emerson, 1843— 1871 will include lectures from the final productive decade of his life. Scholars may question the extent of the editing performed by the Emerson family because of Emerson's aphasia. However, cautions regarding the editing may be brought out without causing the work to be disregarded. The scholars who contributed to The Historical Guide have enriched the read-