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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... " " " Or the despair that overcomes war - shocked Septimus Smith in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway at feeling he can no longer feel . " There could be no more harrowing testi- 126 mony to the terror of idealism , " Sharon EMERSONIAN ...
... feel that a new statement is already possible ... and the statement may be made which shall far tran- scend any written record we yet have . The new state- ment must comprehend the skepticisms as well as the faiths , and must recognize ...
... feel the need to question arbitrary authority , of- ficial wisdom , and their own internalized dutifulness ; so long as they feel the unsatisfied desire to rise above themselves without compromise to integrity or perfectionism ; so long ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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