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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... insist that “Freedom is the essence of Christianity” was to link what otherwise might seem mere personal taste to religious and political first principles, invoking the New England axiom that Puritanism was the seedbed of republican ...
... the prototype for the stylistic vagaries of his friend Emerson, who oversaw the American publication of Carlyle's books. The first reaction of Emer32 son and associates was to disclaim the ism and insist the making of a public intellectual.
Lawrence Buell. 32 son and associates was to disclaim the ism and insist on their independence from one another. But that was impossibly coy. For the Transcendentalists did think of themselves as a network: as a vanguard in the United ...
... what exactly is “action”? Emerson vacillates by insisting that all the scholar's duties are “comprised in self-trust” (W 1: 62). On the face of it 42 warn this would seem the opposite of taking action, 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 |