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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... idea; yet he was forever reopening and reformulating it, looping away and back again, convinced that the spirit of the idea dictated that no final statement was possible. In keeping with this, he was a kind of performance artist who ...
... idea; yet he was forever reopening and reformulating it, looping away and back again, convinced that the spirit of the idea dictated that no final statement was possible. In keeping with this, he was a kind of performance artist who ...
... as to show how “this particular man represented the idea of Man” (JMN 4: 256)—although no human being truly can, although even the 11 “great” fall short of one's ideal. “Bacon, Shakespeare, Caesar, the making public intellectual of a.
... ideas, poetry, epistemology, points of doctrine—animated on both sides. Mary Moody Emerson was an omnivorous autodidact whose overweening religious fervor did not quash but excited her restless intelligence. In a single letter she could ...
... ideas as windows onto world culture and world history. Becoming a Cultural Icon: Emerson as Public Lecturer After 1832, Emerson did not cease being a minister, though he tried to break people of the habit of addressing him as “Reverend ...
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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 |