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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... believed. More to his relief than disappointment, they chose the ceremony. How Emerson forced this issue is instructive. He preached a long sermon carefully outlining his 16 theological objections with arguments borrowed from Quaker ...
... believed that it was enjoined by Jesus on his disciples, and that he even contemplated to make permanent this mode of commemoration ... and yet on trial it was disagreeable to my own feelings, I should not adopt it ... I am not engaged ...
... restrictive institution in which he no longer believed for a flexible one whose emerging form he could bend to his liking. This was the lyceum. 23 The American lyceum was a loose assemblage of autonomous the making public intellectual of a.
... believed “of Jesus & prophets,” he replied “that it seemed to me an impiety to be listening to one & another, when the pure Heaven was pouring itself into each of us” (JMN 13: 406). But in his later work religion becomes a much less ...
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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 |