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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... Self-Reliance in Theory and Practice 59 3. Emersonian Poetics 107 4. Religious Radicalisms 158 5. Emerson as a Philosopher? 199 6. Social Thought and Reform: Emerson and Abolition 242 7. Emerson as Anti-Mentor 288 Notes Acknowledgments ...
... Self-Reliance, as he preferred to call his theory of individuality, is indeed the single best key to his thought; but it is not so simple as it is often made to seem. Chapter 2 discusses it in detail, both as a philosophy of life and ...
... Self-Reliance, as he preferred to call his theory of individuality, is indeed the single best key to his thought; but it is not so simple as it is often made to seem. Chapter 2 discusses it in detail, both as a philosophy of life and ...
... Self-Reliance, as we shall see in Chapter 2. So too the rhetoric of the passage: its terse emphatic assertions. This was to become his mature literary voice. No one could have so renounced conventional self-interest who was as ordinary ...
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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 |