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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... live. At first thought, this proposition may seem strangely paradoxical. How can a figure so commonly and understandably taken as a spokesperson for U.S. national values like American individualism also be thought of as anticipating a ...
... Lives of Emerson, as one critic warns, consistently spell the death of Emerson's text. 2 Biography can keep us from seeing famous figures freshly by reducing ... live each day, think each thought, write the making of a public intellectual.
Lawrence Buell. 10 wanted to live each day, think each thought, write each sentence, without being bound by what he ... Lives of Eminent Greeks and Romans was a favorite book. (He required his son to read two pages of it every schoolday ...
... lives. In the life of the mind, books can be more important than persons, however. So too for Emerson. Negatively, David Hume's elegant skepticism that religion could be proven, even that causality could be proven, disturbed and excited ...
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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 |