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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... cultural nationalist, he would never have thought to rely on America for his education. No thinker of his generation did. Indeed throughout the century most of the nation's major writers were far more influenced by foreign models than ...
... cultural authority. He has been hailed as the father of American literary and philosophical pragmatism and discounted as a less credible spokesman for American democratization and cultural pluralism than Frederick Douglass or even ...
... cultural nationalist, he would never have thought to rely on America for his education. No thinker of his generation did. Indeed throughout the century most of the nation's major writers were far more influenced by foreign models than ...
... strategic detachment. Much more could be said about family influences. But of course the making of a major thinker is no mere family affair. 20 The cultural context in which Emerson grew up was the making of a public intellectual.
Lawrence Buell. 20 The cultural context in which Emerson grew up was no less important to his decisions to enter the ... culturally predisposed from the start to measure all faiths by the test of what they did for human lives. In the life ...
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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 |