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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... admired essays and poems, together with others less famous but no less important. As I've already suggested, Emerson was the kind of person who repeatedly put his prior certainties under question, even when he had thrashed through a ...
... admired essays and poems, together with others less famous but no less important. As I've already suggested, Emerson was the kind of person who repeatedly put his prior certainties under question, even 6 when he had thrashed through a ...
... and journeyed to Italy, France, England to recover health and spirits. There he met and conversed with the living thinkers 15 he most admired: Thomas Carlyle, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the making public intellectual of a.
Lawrence Buell. 15 he most admired: Thomas Carlyle, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth. He strengthened ... admiration, probably had much to do both with provoking Emerson's periodic complaints about the artificiality of ...
... admired good improvisation but never tried to cultivate it. His text was a synthesis of reading, reflection, and memoranda from the journals and topical notebooks he had been keeping since the age of sixteen. He now began to exploit ...
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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 |