Volume 24, number 2 Fall 2013 EmErson sociEty PaPErs Distinguished achievement award Presented to Dieter schulz Dieter Schulz was born in 1943 and raised in Melsungen, including Dietmar Schloss and Herwig Friedl, and he a village in Hesse, Germany, where his father taught graciously hosted such visiting Americanists as David school. In 1968 he completed his Dr. phil. at Marburg Uni - Robinson, David Nordloh, Gary Scharnhorst, Christopher versity, where his Doktorvater was Kurt Otten. After con - Shultis, Kerry Driscoll, and Sam Girgus. Professor Schulz sidering a career in Russian studies, Professor Schulz has been awarded visiting fellowships to Yale University chose to specialize in English and American literature. His (1974, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983-84), Fulbright travel grants dissertation was entitled Studien zur Verführungsszene im (1982, 1988, 1993, and 2004); and he has held visiting englischen Roman, 1660-1760 (The Seduction Scene in professorships in the Departments of English at Oregon English Fiction, 1660-1760). Awarded a three-year post- State University (1982) and the University of New Mexico doctoral research fellowship at Yale University (1968-71), (1988, 1993, 2004). He is active in the German and Euro - Professor Schulz began his teaching career in the Depart- pean Associations for American Studies and the American ment of American Studies at the University of New Mex - Literature Association. He retired from full-time teaching ico during the summers of 1969 and 1970, where he met in 2008. and befriended George Arms and Hamlin Hill. After his Over the past forty-plus years Professor Schulz has return to West Germany, he ac - also, of course, compiled a distinguished record of profes - cepted teaching positions at the sional publications. A remarkably erudite and versatile new Universität Wupperal (1973- scholar, he has published essays in German, English and 75), founded in 1972, and at Russian on the fiction of E. L. Doctorow, Saul Bellow, Universität Stuttgart (1971-73, John Barth, Nathanael West, Sherwood Anderson, James 1975-82), where he worked with Fenimore Cooper, Kate Chopin, Herman Melville, Edgar Lothar Fietz. In 1981 he com - Allan Poe, Charles Brockden Brown, and especially pleted his Habilitationsschrift, Nathaniel Hawthorne; the poetry of Walt Whitman, Ezra or second dissertation, entitled Pound, and William Carlos Williams; the drama of John Suche und Abenteuer: Formen Gay, Richard Steele, Peter Shaffer, Paul Baker, Elmer der “Quest” in der englischen Rice, and John Osborne; the inaugural addresses of Ronald und amerikanischen Erzählkunst der Romantik (Search Reagan; and the theological writings of John Cotton and and Adventure: Quest Patterns in English and American Roger Williams. His first published essay, on Brown’s Romantic Fiction). He joined the Neuphilologische Edgar Huntly as quest romance, appeared in American Fakultät and the Anglistisches Seminar at the Universität Literature in 1971, some forty-two years ago, when he was Heidelberg in 1982 as Professor of American Literature. only twenty-eight years old. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Modern Philology He began to focus on the American Renaissance and during the academic year 1986-87. During his career in the writings of the Concord group forty years ago with Heidelberg he mentored several well-known scholars, articles on Hawthorne’s “Roger Malvin’s Burial” and (Continued on page 15) 2013 E mErson sociEty Donors Emerson Society members continue generously to join at various “patron” levels of membership. All donations above the $20 annual regular membership go to support special programs of the Society. Dues categories are Life ($500), Sustaining ($50), Contributing ($35), Regular ($20), and Student ($5). Please send check payable to The Emerson Society (U.S. dollars only) to Todd H. Richardson, Dept. of Literature and Languages, University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Odessa, TX 79762-0001. Life Members Jonathan Emerson Kohler Rev. F. Jay Deacon Dieter Schulz Sean Ross Meehan Elizabeth Addison Wesley T. Mott Helen Deese Andrew M. Sidle Jacqueline Kellon Moran Rev. Barry Andrews Joel Myerson Susan Dunstan Joe Thomas Ralph H. Orth José C. Ballón Nanae Nishio Leslie E. Eckel Laura Dassow Walls Anita Patterson Margaret Emerson Bancroft Izumi Ogura Karen English Stephanie Woolf Sandy Petrulionis Ronald A. Bosco Samuel K. Parish Claude D. Falls Susan Roberson Paul S. Christensen Wendell F. Refior Shoji Goto Contributing Members William Rossi Phyllis Cole Robert D. Richardson, Jr. Bernabe Genaro Gutierez Noelle Baker Mikayo Sakuma Roger L. Cole Todd H. Richardson Robert D. Habich Peter Balaam Ryan Schneider Duane Cox Robert Nelson Riddick Robert P. Henry Kris Boudreau Harold Schweizer Scott C. Crowley George R. Rinhart Robert N. Hudspeth Cynthia Cavanaugh Dale R. Schwie Sterling F. Delano Fan Shengyu Linck Johnson Douglas Crase Margaret Moreland Stathos Ellen Emerson Nancy Craig Simmons Martin Kevorkian Dale Fox Mark Sullivan Mary H. Emerson Michael Lorence Fruitlands Museum Yoshio Takanashi Richard Lee Francis Sustaining Members Ola Madhour Yoshiko Fujita Joseph Urbas Len Gougeon William Ackerman James Marcus Greg Garvey A.E.P. (Ed) Wall Robert L. Hamilton Susan Belasco Frank Martucci Jon D. Inners Tiffany Wayne Don Henley Glen Bessner Saundra Morris T. Paul Kane Mark Hicks Diane Whitley Bogard Jean McClure Mudge Daniel Koch J. Parker Huber Jeffrey Brandt C. Jack Orr Nancy LeMay Michael J. Keating Martha Davidson David M. Robinson Bavo Lievens EmErson sociEty PaPErs EMErSon SoCiEty offiCErS The newsletter of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society President: Robert D. Habich (2013) Published at Le Moyne College Ball State University President-Elect: Susan Dunston (2013) www.emersonsociety.org New Mexico Tech Editor: Jennifer Gurley Secretary/Treasurer: Todd H. 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Manuscripts are blind ref - Dieter Schulz (2013) ereed. On matters of style, consult previous issues. We also solicit Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg (emeritus) news about Emerson-related community, school, and other projects; Yoshio Takanashi (2014) information about editions, publications, and research in progress Nagano Prefectural College on Emerson and his circle; queries and requests for information in Joseph Urbas (2015) aid of research in these fields; and significant news of Emersonian Université Michel de Montaigne—Bordeaux scholars. Send manuscripts to the editor, Jennifer Gurley, English Department, LeMoyne College, 1419 Salt Springs Road, Syracuse, ProgrAM ChAir New York, 13214 or [email protected] (email submissions are David Dowling (2015) much preferred). University of Iowa Review copies of books on Emerson should be sent to book review WEBMAStEr editor Leslie Eckel, English Department, Suffolk University, 41 Amy E. Earhart Temple St., Boston, MA 02114-4280. Texas A&M University ©2013 The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, Inc. ISSN 1050-4362 [Term expires at end of year in parentheses.] 2 Emerson Society Papers addressing the interdisciplinary nature of Emerson’s work and its impact on his creativity, papers might explore his willingness to draw freely from the fine arts, natural science (such as the astron - omy of Alexander Von Humboldt), poetry, ancient philosophy, and religion to assemble his most powerful and enduring concepts. Papers might also consider Emerson’s association with a wide array of figures in his career, from artists to scientists to clerics, representing those myriad schools of thought and their function in ProsPEcts. his creative process. Submit 300-word abstracts to David Dowling ([email protected]) by Jan. 15, 2014. Emerson society Graduate student travel award aLa call for Proposals This award provides up to $750 of travel support to present a The Emerson Society will sponsor two panels at the Annual Meet - paper on one of the Emerson Society panels at the American ing of the American Literature Association, to be held in Washing - Literature Association Annual Meeting or the Thoreau Society ton, D.C., May 22 –25, 2014. For information about the Annual Gathering. Graduate students interested in applying should conference, see www.americanliterature.org. submit their abstracts by Jan. 15, 2014 to David Dowling (david- [email protected]) and indicate their desire for consideration. Emerson and the Business World Emerson sightings/citings Emerson’s published writings and private correspondence show a deep concern for the encroaching market revolution while also re - Sean Ross Meehan notes that Richard Ford quotes Emerson in his flecting his lifelong fascination with the world of business. Despite