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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... interest being taken today by historians of U.S. culture in how it has been shaped in interaction with transatlantic, transpacific, and hemispheric influences. Although much of this revisionist history has involved retrieval of voices ...
... interest in his work and a vigorous effort to delimit or reject his cultural authority. He has been hailed as the father of American literary and philosophical pragmatism and discounted as a less credible spokesman for American ...
... interest who was as ordinary at heart as one would suppose from the external facts of Emerson's academic record and employment history before 1832. In fact he had been marked out in various ways from early childhood. Marked, first, as ...
... interest. All this was part of a broader proliferation of media in the nineteenth-century in Britain and the United States that allowed the intelligentsia of both countries to speak to wider publics. It made possible a cadre of high ...
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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 |