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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... like Emerson have been oversimplified in being thought of as icons of U.S. national culture. The kind of fresh look that I intend does not mean reidealiz4 ing Emerson. I want rather to provide a balanced assessment introduction.
... look further beyond the personage into the complexities of the thought, the writing, the legends. This also makes the challenge of understanding Emerson far greater in our time than it seemed to those turn-of-the-century celebrants for ...
... look back on the world of their childhood as a small world; but Emerson dwelt with unusual vehemence on the limits of both his own juvenile horizon and his culture's horizonsthat early ignorant & transitional Month-of-March, in our ...
... look at a particular strand of Emerson's work as it developed. No one sample tells all, but we get a reasonably good sense of the transition from the Transcendentalist Emerson to the later Emerson by following his treatment of the ...
... look more conciliatory, even bland, relative to the Transcendental Emerson. On closer inspection the difference is smaller than it seems. 'Tis a whole population of gentlemen and ladies out in search of religions. 'Tis as flat anarchy ...
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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 |