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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... literature, religion, philosophy, social thought and reform, and what I call mentorship. Emersonian “Self-Reliance,” as he preferred to call his theory of individuality, is indeed the single best key to his thought; but it is not so ...
... literature to economics and natural science; the major figures and episodes of world history; the traits and trends of modern culture; and the urgent social issues of the day. For the first thirty years of his life, however, Emerson did ...
... literature, religion, philosophy, social thought and reform, and what I call mentorship. Emersonian “Self-Reliance,” as he preferred to call his theory of individuality, is indeed the single best key to his thought; but it is not so ...
... turn-of-the-century celebrants for whom he had been a familiar local presence. For few American thinkers have influ8 enced posterity in such varied and pervasive ways: its literature, 1. The Making of a Public Intellectual.
Lawrence Buell. 8 enced posterity in such varied and pervasive ways: its literature, its religion, its philosophy, its social thought. Perhaps none will again. Emerson reached maturity just as intellectual labor had begun to specialize ...
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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 |