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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... literary figure who advocated a doctrine of individualism. This image is not wrong, but it understates the depth of his thinking and the scope of his achievement. In fact Emerson was remarkable for having influenced thinking in a wide ...
... literary figure who advocated a doctrine of individualism. This image is not wrong, but it understates the depth of his thinking and the scope of his achievement. In fact Emerson was remarkable for having influenced thinking in a wide ...
... . But he did not cultivate this style as a literary accomplishment pure and simple so much as a way of thinking through an array of major ethical, spiritual, and social concerns 3 that ultimately meant far more to him than did introduction.
Lawrence Buell. 3 that ultimately meant far more to him than did the literary as such. If you are attracted to a kind of creative writing given over to pondering how life should be led; if you relish virtuoso displays of mental energy ...
... literary and philosophical pragmatism and discounted as a less credible spokesman for American democratization and cultural pluralism than Frederick Douglass or even Harriet Beecher Stowe and James Fenimore Cooper. My own approach is ...
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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 |