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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... James Fenimore Cooper. My own approach is more respectful than debunking, but it differs from most previous studies of either kind in arguing that we need to think of Emerson not in terms of a single cultural context or scale but four ...
... James Elliot Cabot's two-volume Memoir (1887), an excellent late Victorian life-and-letters-style biography, to Robert Richardson, Jr.'s Emerson: The Mind on Fire (1995), a wonderfully discerning account of his intellectual life in a ...
... James Marsh's edition of Coleridge's Aids (1829) (because of its interpretation of Coleridge) and Sampson Reed's visionary pamphlet Observa22 tions on the Growth of the Mind (1826) (which led the making of a public intellectual.
... James and Oscar Wilde, who despite their differences formed a transatlantic Victorian sodality of cultural arbiters. The Yankee lyceum system was less class-stratified than what developed in Britain. Its organizers tended to be middle ...
... but he would not have thought to use it as a noun. That happened only at the turn of the century. “Public philosopher,” the rubric by 40 which George Cotkin links Emerson to William James, would the making of a public intellectual.
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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 |