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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... Chapter 1. In addition to mapping Emerson's mind and achievement, this sequence of chapters highlights certain paradoxes that account for much of the fascination and significance of Emerson's work. No one ever made stronger claims on ...
... chapters, therefore, are new readings of his most admired essays and poems, together with others less famous but no less important. As I've already suggested, Emerson was the kind of person who repeatedly put his prior certainties under ...
... , but it understates the depth of his thinking and the scope of his achievement. In fact Emerson was remarkable for having influenced thinking in a wide range of areas, not just one 2 or two. Chapters 3 through 7 dramatize this by.
... Chapter 1. In addition to mapping Emerson's mind and achievement, this sequence of chapters highlights certain paradoxes that account for much of the fascination and significance of Emerson's work. No one ever made stronger claims on ...
... chapters, therefore, are new readings of his most admired essays and poems, together with others less famous but no less important. As I've already suggested, Emerson was the kind of person who repeatedly put his prior certainties under ...
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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 |