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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... 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.
Lawrence Buell. 11 “great” fall short of one's ideal. “Bacon, Shakespeare, Caesar, Scipio, Cicero, Burke, Chatham, Franklin, none of them will bear examination or furnish the type of a Man” (JMN 4: 36). 4 The great figures of the past ...
... ideal he consistently imaged as male.) 9 Third, she was his living link to “the evangelical past,” which otherwise he might have seen as repressively “Ptolmaic” and nothing more (JMN 4: 26). 10 Finally, her discontinuous, trenchant ...
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Turinys
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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 |