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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... inspired” thinking that doesn't try to fill in all the blanks; if you find yourself vexed by the spectacle of unused or wasted resources in yourself or others—if such things matter to you, then Emerson's writing probably will too. This ...
... inspire all to “follow in that way to which he pointed.” 1 Today we have the historical knowledge and the critical distance to look further beyond the personage into the complexities of the thought, the writing, the legends. This also ...
... inspire, stupefy, provoke challenge or insult, be interrupted by noisy entrances, or suffer cold, dirt, and stench. Then there were the potential transit hazards of squalid hotels, missed trains, steamboat accidents, flash floods, and ...
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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 |