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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... Phi Beta Kappa Society orations ? Note how gingerly Emerson broaches this topic " which not only usage , but the na- ture of our association , seem to prescribe to this day , the AMERICAN SCHOLAR . Year by year , we come up hither to ...
... Phi Beta Kappa oration the following year was to be the scholar's intellectual independence rather than his Ameri- canness as such , so here the core subject is not the Revolution or the revolutionaries but the " Spirit " of freedom ...
... Phi Beta Kappa oration at Harvard on the " Progress of Culture , " a few weeks before the thirtieth anniver- sary of " The American Scholar , " makes no bones about his commitment to what he sees as an unmistakable but still ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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