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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... experience. (More on this irony of gender anon, that a woman should have been Emerson's first model for an ideal he consistently imaged as male.) 9 Third, she was his living link to “the evangelical past,” which otherwise he might have ...
... Experience” and “Montaigne” strike a pose of cool detachment that seems decidedly Humean. Meanwhile, Coleridge's argument in Aids to Reflection (1826), claiming Kantian authority for a higher “Reason” that intuitively grasped the divine ...
... experience as a pillar of the Concord Lyceum, where he lectured more than anywhere else, Emerson could never foresee when he might inspire, stupefy, provoke challenge or insult, be interrupted by noisy entrances, or suffer cold, dirt ...
... demanding. But even essays like “Experience,” so synthesized, distilled, and (re)composed as to have very little connection with 29 any antecedent lecture, bear distinct traces of the kind the making of a public intellectual.
... experience. When his publisher asked him nearly two decades later what he believed “of Jesus & prophets,” he replied “that it seemed to me an impiety to be listening to one & another, when the pure Heaven was pouring itself into each 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 |