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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... become the first figure in U.S. history to achieve international standing and influence as a speaker and writer of comprehensive scope, addressing the branches of knowledge from religion, ethics, and literature to economics and natural ...
... of their own creation. A man becomes a Lexicon, a money chest, the treadle of a factory wheel, a tassel at the apron string of 9 society (EL 2: 196). For Marx, the path to the making of a public intellectual.
... Becoming Emerson Emerson was born into a nation a mere quarter-century old and acutely self-conscious of its ... become a much smaller part of the United States than it had been in the 12 Revolutionary era, as settlers continued ...
... become the first figure in U.S. history to achieve international standing and influence as a speaker and writer of comprehensive scope, addressing the branches of knowledge from religion, ethics, and literature to economics and natural ...
... becomes Emerson, the Emerson of the later essays who affirms the divinity of the self, the cornerstone of Transcendentalism. Well before this he had been preaching nearly the same thing in decorous scripturese, leaning on verses like ...
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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 |