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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... United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Buell, Lawrence. Emerson / Lawrence Buell. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-674-01139-2 (alk. paper) ISBN 0-674-01637-8 (pbk.) 1 ...
... United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Buell, Lawrence. Emerson / Lawrence Buell. p. cm. For Kim. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-674-01139-2 (alk. paper) ISBN 0-674-01637-8 (pbk ...
... United States. It is written both for scholars and for nonspecialist readers seeking a first book about Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882). The research is as up-to-date and the language as direct as I can make it. From other books on ...
... United States of his infancy was less a “nation” than a project. Its finances were rickety, its politics faction-ridden, the union precarious, national security threatened by European and North African powers. Its intelligentsia were ...
... United States that allowed the intelligentsia of both countries to speak to wider publics. It made possible a cadre of high-profile figures from Carlyle and Emerson and Charles Dickens to William James and Oscar Wilde, who despite their ...
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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 |