EmersonHarvard University Press, 2004-09-30 - 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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... American individualism” also be thought of as anticipating a “postnational” form of consciousness? Yet the fact is that Emerson had surprisingly limited patience for nationalism as such and would probably have been far more supportive ...
... American literary and philosophical pragmatism and discounted as a less credible spokesman for American democratization and cultural pluralism than Frederick Douglass or even Harriet Beecher Stowe and James Fenimore Cooper. My own ...
... American takeoff point. During Emerson's youth, the modern factory system was introduced into New England, the Erie Canal was built, the first railroad lines were laid, a century-long trend of large-scale immigration began, and the self ...
... American public intellectual. Though a recent coinage, the term fits him well, as we shall see; and he anticipates it in his definition of scholars at large as “intellectual persons” (EAW 73). The other, related upshot was that “Emerson ...
... American book?” 11 But he himself didn't either, to any great extent. Young Emerson was highly susceptible to American oratory, but generally contemptuous of American print culture. Before 1835 not a single American book touched him ...
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2 Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
3 Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
4 Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
5 Emerson as a Philosopher? | 199 |
Emerson and Abolition | 242 |
7 Emerson as AntiMentor | 288 |
Notes | 337 |
Acknowledgments | 383 |
Index | 385 |