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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... literary streak . He read diffusely , scribbled mediocre verse , wrote cardboard gothic fantasies in prose , flirted with the dream of becoming a critic who would restore drama to its ancient glory . In all this he resembled cultured ...
... literary magazine . From him young Emerson fancied he might have inherited his “ pas- sionate love for the strains of eloquence " ( JMN 2 : 239 ) . But his penchant for oratory was as much osmotic as genetic . Public speaking was the ...
... literary history has been redrawn , at least for the nonce , to his disad- vantage . No longer does it seem so self - evident that Emerson and Transcendentalism were the gateway to U.S. literary emer- gence the " American Renaissance ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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