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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... ISBN 0-674-01139-2 (alk. paper) ISBN 0-674-01637-8 (pbk.) 1. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803–1882—Criticism and interpretation. 2. United States—Intellectual life—19th century. I. Title. PS 1638.B84 2003 814 ́.3—dc21 2003041480.
... Intellectual 7 2. Emersonian Self-Reliance in Theory and Practice 59 3. Emersonian Poetics 107 4. Religious Radicalisms 158 5. Emerson as a Philosopher? 199 6. Social Thought and Reform: Emerson and Abolition 242 7. Emerson as Anti ...
... intellectual in the history of the United States. It is written both for scholars and for nonspecialist readers seeking a first book about Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882). The research is as up-to-date and the language as direct as I ...
... intellectual should think and be. Emerson is almost always at his most interesting when striving to free his mind from parochial entanglements of whatever sort. Not that he always succeeded in doing so. Sometimes the effort just led him ...
... intellectual. Readers already familiar with Emerson's biography may wish to begin with the next-to-last section of Chapter 1. In addition to mapping Emerson's mind and achievement, this sequence of chapters highlights certain paradoxes ...
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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 |