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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... schools and colleges as a literary figure who advocated a doctrine of individualism. This image is not wrong, but it understates the depth of his thinking and the scope of his achievement. In fact Emerson was remarkable for having ...
... School, Harvard College, a stint of schoolteaching, Harvard Divinity School, socially desirable pastorate at Boston's Second (Unitarian) Church, member of the Boston schools committee and chaplain of the Massachusetts senate like his ...
... schools and colleges as a literary figure who advocated a doctrine of individualism. This image is not wrong, but it understates the depth of his thinking and the scope of his achievement. In fact Emerson was remarkable for having ...
... school holiday for an allday celebration of his life and legacy. No one now would go far as the local minister did then, praying before the overflow crowd that “the blessed influence of his spirit” might inspire all to “follow in that ...
... schools of law, medicine, and divinity had recently been founded. The industrial revolution was at its American takeoff point. During Emerson's youth, the modern factory system was introduced into New England, the Erie Canal was built ...
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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 |