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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... helped set him loose and make possible “his second birth,” as Richardson calls it. 6 The religious doubts that had bedeviled him for years multiplied as his mind and reading widened. Like his elder brother William, who had foresworn the ...
... helped shape his mature theory of “Self-Reliance,” as we shall see in Chapter 2. So too the rhetoric of the passage: its terse emphatic assertions. This was to become his mature literary voice. No one could have so renounced ...
... helped him become the only one of the four to manage chronic debility and vocational self-doubt without sacrificing himself to his sense of duty. “Clear I am that he who would act must lounge,” he wrote his punctilious older brother ...
... helped the Emerson boys with educational loans. Emerson was deeply touched when “Rev. Dr. Palfrey” refused payment for his late brother's eighty-dollar debt on the ground that it was not to fall due until Edward “should be successful at ...
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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 |