Representative Men

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book essay collection

Representative Men is a collection of biographical essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson that explores the character and influence of six great historical figures as models of human potential and leadership.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book → essay collection →
author	Ralph Waldo Emerson →
basedOn	lectures delivered by Ralph Waldo Emerson →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
firstPublicationYear	1850 →
form	lecture series →
genre	biographical essays → philosophical essays →
hasEssayOn	man of the world → mystic → philosopher → poet → skeptic → writer →
hasInfluenced	biographical criticism → leadership studies →
hasPart	Goethe; or, the Writer → Montaigne; or, the Skeptic → Napoleon; or, the Man of the World → Plato; or, the Philosopher → Shakespeare; or, the Poet → Swedenborg; or, the Mystic → Uses of Great Men →
includedIn	Ralph Waldo Emerson bibliography →
intendedAs	examples of leadership → models of human character →
language	English →
literaryMovement	Transcendentalism →
mediaType	print →
notableFor	portraying six historical figures as representative types of humanity →
placeOfFirstPublication	Boston →
publisher	Phillips, Sampson and Company →
subject	Emanuel Swedenborg → Johann Wolfgang von Goethe → Michel de Montaigne → Napoleon Bonaparte → Plato → William Shakespeare →
theme	character → great men → human potential → influence of individuals on history → leadership →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Essays: Second Series →	followedBy
Ralph Waldo Emerson →	notableWork