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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... . ISBN 0-674-01139-2 (alk. paper) ISBN 0-674-01637-8 (pbk.) 1. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803–1882—Criticism and interpretation. 2. United States—Intellectual life—19th century. I. Title. PS 1638.B84 2003 814 ́.3—dc21 2003041480 For Kim.
... . ISBN 0-674-01139-2 (alk. paper) ISBN 0-674-01637-8 (pbk.) 1. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803–1882—Criticism and interpretation. 2. United States—Intellectual life—19th century. I. Title. PS 1638.B84 2003 814 ́.3—dc21 2003041480.
... century garments it wears. Its peculiar blend—of humility and assertiveness, sincerity and irony, abstraction and directness, intransigent position-taking versus infinite wariness about being pinned down to any one formulation—still ...
... century most of the nation's major writers were far more influenced by foreign models than by one another. One of Emerson's own major contributions to the intellectual life of his day was to press his countrymen to extend the range of ...
... -of-the-century celebrants for whom he had been a familiar local presence. For few American thinkers have influ8 enced posterity in such varied and pervasive ways: its literature, 1. The Making of a Public Intellectual.
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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 |