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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... figure who advocated a doctrine of individualism. This image is not wrong, but 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 ...
... figure in U.S. history to achieve international standing and influence as a speaker and writer of comprehensive ... figures and episodes of world history; the traits and trends of modern culture; and the urgent social issues of the day ...
... figure who advocated a doctrine of individualism. This image is not wrong, but 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 ...
... figure so commonly and understandably taken as a spokesperson for U.S. national values like “American individualism ... figures like Emerson have been oversimplified in being thought of as icons of U.S. national culture. The kind of ...
... keep us from seeing famous figures freshly by reducing them to formulaic narratives of development. Emerson, by contrast, was the kind of person who 10 wanted to live each day, think each thought, write the making of a public intellectual.
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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 |