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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... English ears , to which it might be only ridiculous , —and yet it is the only true " ( W 5 : 161 ) . Best of all is the passage that follows this in English 50 Traits , where Emerson goes on to say what THE MAKING OF A PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL.
Lawrence Buell. 62 English Dictionary's earliest listing of the term in English comes , in fact , from Emerson's 1850 essay on Goethe . This is a gross error . Years before , American Unitarianism had developed its own theory of self ...
... English influence . His twin targets are lingering deference to English standards of taste among the Yankee elite ( which he links to Copperhead politics ) and the perfidy of English mercantile and cultural elites for not rallying to ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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