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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... essays and poems, together with others less famous but no less important. As I've already suggested, Emerson was the kind of person who repeatedly put his prior certainties under question, even 6 when he had thrashed through a subject ...
... essays without much revision. Emerson disassembled and rewove, injecting new journal material and last-minute afterthoughts. An Emerson essay is typically a good deal denser than an Emerson lecture. The paragraphs tend to be longer, the ...
... essays yield the most when they are not just scanned by the eye but also heard by the mind's ear. Emerson summarized his theory of public speaking, which can also stand as his theory of the essay, in a lecture on Eloquence first given ...
Lawrence Buell. 37 were later drawn on for Essays, First Series (1841). Nowhere does the radicalization of Emerson's ... essay on the nature of religious experience. 38 Whereas Emerson's first lecture on Religion was given to the ...
... Essays, Second Series that Emerson had become bored with the subject of 'Jesus,' &c. (EC 371). Having settled first principles, insofar as they could be settled, he turned to fuller examination of culture, history, and the human ...
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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 |