EmersonHarvard University Press, 2003-05-25 - 416 psl. "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man," Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote--and in this book, the leading scholar of New England literary culture looks at the long shadow Emerson himself has cast, and at his role and significance as a truly American institution. On the occasion of Emerson's 200th birthday, Lawrence Buell revisits the life of the nation's first public intellectual and discovers how he became a "representative man." |
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... Carlyle's jocular introduction of the word in his celebrated spiritual au- tobiography , Sartor Resartus ( 1831 ) . Carlyle's whimsical impetu- ousness was claimed with partial justice as the prototype for the stylistic vagaries of his ...
... Carlyle , Goethe , Swedenborg . Small wonder that the speech struck Thomas Carlyle simply as “ a man's voice , " the voice of “ a kins- man and brother , " to which Jane Carlyle added " that there had been nothing met with like it since ...
... Carlyle's way of categorizing Emerson made even better his- torical sense than Carlyle probably realized . Not only had he himself been one of Emerson's inspirations , but before him the father of all the British sages , Coleridge ; and ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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