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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... felt the freshness of the twist it gave to Adam Smith's image of the invisible hand of production in The Wealth of Nations, then as now considered the classic statement of liberal economic theory. Where Smith had stressed the ...
... felt considerably more ambivalent. Chapters 2 through 7 take up specific aspects of Emerson's thought, writing, and influence. This one lays the groundwork with a review of his career. To start with biography is riskier than it might ...
... felt a strong attraction. Plutarch's Lives of Eminent Greeks and Romans was a favorite book. (He required his son to read two pages of it every schoolday and ten pages on Saturdays and [on] vacation.) 3 His first public lecture series ...
... felt for awhile that his own life had ended; and indeed this was to be the beginning of the end of his short existence as a good Boston professional. In a way he could never have foreseen, loss and isolation helped set him loose and ...
... felt the need to scrimp. Emerson even became publicly identified as one of The Richest Men in Massachusetts. Meanwhile, he had become an antislavery activist. In the short run, this reinforced his reputation for dangerous (or exciting) ...
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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 |