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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... reason to doubt the sincerity of his declaration of commitment to the ministry on the eve of his twenty-first birthday (in Divinity I hope to thrive, and so on) (JMN 2: 239). But this was a received identity, not an independently ...
... reason I pay an unusual amount of attention to lines of connection between Emerson and foreign sources, contemporaries, and readers. The most striking qualities of Emerson's work often tend to get lost when we yield too quickly to the ...
... reason, that their region was destined to become a much smaller part of the United States than it had been in the 12 Revolutionary era, as settlers continued to migrate westward across the making of a public intellectual.
... reason to doubt the sincerity of his declaration of commitment to the ministry on the eve of his twenty-first birthday (in Divinity I hope to thrive, and so on) (JMN 2: 239). But this was a received identity, not an independently ...
... reason enough why I should abandon it. If I believed that it was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples, and that he even contemplated to make permanent this mode of commemoration ... and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings ...
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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 |