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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... fact Emerson was remarkable for having influenced thinking in a wide range of areas, not just one or two. Chapters 3 through 7 dramatize this by taking up in succession his contributions to literature, religion, philosophy, social ...
... it understates the depth of his thinking and the scope of his achievement. In fact Emerson was remarkable for having influenced thinking in a wide range of areas, not just one 2 or two. Chapters 3 through 7 dramatize this by.
... fact is that Emerson had surprisingly limited patience for nationalism as such and would probably have been far more supportive than critical of the increasing interest being taken today by historians of U.S. culture in how it has been ...
... facts of Emerson's academic record and employment history before 1832. In fact he had been marked out in various ways from early childhood. Marked, first, as one of a close-knit but highly competitive group of siblings, monitored by a ...
... the Scottish “Realist” or “Common Sense” theory on which Harvard/Unitarian philosophy of mind was based. It claimed to de21 rive mental and moral coherence from the empirical facts of the making public intellectual of a.
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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 |