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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... claims on behalf of the individual person, yet few have been more dismissive of the trivially personal. Emerson was an intensely focused thinker who kept returning lifelong to his core idea; yet he was forever reopening and ...
... claims on behalf of the individual person, yet few have been more dismissive of the trivially personal. Emerson was an intensely focused thinker who kept returning lifelong to his core idea; yet he was forever reopening and ...
... claims to be a divinely revealed religion. 7 Ministerial routine increasingly irked him. And so, uncertain about his future course except that it had to be a new course, Emerson resigned his pulpit and journeyed to Italy, France ...
... claim in the first The sermon was actually more confrontational than his journal account of thrashing through the decision. “I know very well that it is a bad sign in a man to be too conscientious, & stick at gnats,” he admitted to ...
... claimed to be the defining trait of the scholar or “Man Thinking” (W 1: 53): intellectual vitality as self ... claim that his aunt wrote the best prose of anyone in her generation. She could also be a jealous bully, who tried to ...
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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 |