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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... liberal economic theory. Where Smith had stressed the efficiency of the division of labor, Emerson saw the fragmentation of a previous social unity, with fingers divided from hand, hand and body from the scholar's special organ, the ...
... liberal Christian ethics. It was also, within moralistic limits, hospitable to the arts and letters as a means of ... liberalism prompted him even during his student days to ask “What is Stoicism? What is Christianity? They are for ...
... liberal Concord, Emerson's proposal to invite Wendell Phillips to lecture on abolitionism prompted resignations among the lyceum curators when it passed by a slim margin (JMN 9: 102). (Emerson and Thoreau took two of the vacated seats ...
... liberal Unitarian ministers Frederic Henry Hedge, George Ripley, Theodore Parker (later also a radical abolitionist), and Orestes 33 Brownson, an activist and magazinist who later converted to the making of a public intellectual.
... liberal to radical in their social views, although like Emerson most did not become active politically until the mid-1840s or later. For the time, they were highly educated, most of the men being Harvard alumni in an era when the ...
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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 |