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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... later " Emerson by following his treatment of the subject that first put him in the public eye : his quarrel with religious ortho- doxy . The crucial moment of his ministerial years was , we saw , his protest against a specific ritual ...
... later what he believed " of Jesus & prophets , " he replied " that it seemed to me an impiety to be listening to one & another , when the pure Heaven was pouring itself into each of us " ( JMN 13 : 406 ) . But in his later work religion ...
... later cites in Representative Men as proof of the antiquity of the doctrine of the oneness of Mind ( W 4 : 28 ) and reinvokes now to explicate chronic failure to perceive that unity . With this insight as a clue , Illusions reads ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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