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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... critical of the increasing interest being taken today by historians of U.S. culture in how it has been shaped in interaction with transatlantic, transpacific, and hemispheric influences. Although much of this revisionist history has ...
... critical distance to look further beyond the personage into the complexities of the thought, the writing, the legends. This also makes the challenge of understanding Emerson far greater in our time than it seemed to those turn-of-the ...
... critical aloofness from prevailing pieties even when he chose nominally to defer. This we can see best by a closer look at a particular strand of Emerson's work as it developed. No one sample tells all, but we get a reasonably good ...
... any person awakened to a state of critical thought. They were catholic but judicious readers who did not become overinfluenced 41 even by favorite authors. They were thinkers rather than the making public intellectual of a.
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Turinys
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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 |