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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... differences of taste and opinion that were never resolved. But the combinations of consistent loyalty versus intervals of discord, mutual disappointment versus mutual admiration, probably had much to do both with provoking Emerson's ...
... difference to have exchanged commitment to a 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 ...
... differences formed a transatlantic Victorian sodality of cultural arbiters. The Yankee lyceum system was less class-stratified than what developed in Britain. Its organizers tended to be middle-aged local worthies, but the clientele was ...
... difference, then as now, is that Palfrey was a basically conventional thinker who always expressed himself with measured decorum, whereas Emerson resolved to speak in a voice of his own and almost always maintained a certain critical ...
... difference is smaller than it seems. “'Tis a whole population of gentlemen and ladies out in search of religions. 'Tis as flat anarchy in our ecclesiastic realms 39 as that which existed in Massachusetts in the Revolution” the making of ...
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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 |