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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... kind of performance artist who favored a highly imaginative, improvisational style of expression, often playfully ironic yet also deeply serious. But he did not cultivate this style as a literary accomplishment pure and simple so much ...
... kind of person who repeatedly put his prior certainties under question, even when he had thrashed through a subject many times before. So too with this book. It reflects an adult lifetime of meditation and teaching. I finished the first ...
... kind of performance artist who favored a highly imaginative, improvisational style of expression, often playfully ironic yet also deeply serious. But he did not cultivate this style as a literary accomplishment pure and simple so much ...
... kind of creative writing given over to pondering how life should be led; if you relish virtuoso displays of mental energy and “inspired” thinking that doesn't try to fill in all the blanks; if you find yourself vexed by the spectacle of ...
... kind in arguing that we need to think of Emerson not in terms of a single cultural context or scale but four: the regional-ethnic, the national, the transatlantic, and the global. The Emerson who emerges from this book was formed and ...
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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 |