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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... 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.
... means of personal growth. To a serious-minded doubter of aesthetic bent, it was more liberating than the available alternatives. But it weakened the hold of religious institutions as such. No wonder Emerson's vocational model, William ...
... means also to jolt, to go by the listener a bit more quickly than he or she will absorb it; and the passage as a whole hovers provocatively between earnestness and sarcasm. Through such dexterously sententious, invigorating, slightly ...
... means that you shall see.” But the flame must be modulated by “a certain regnant calmness” (93), and the inner strength of “character and insight” that for Emerson was the substance of “the moral sentiment” (97). Nothing less than the ...
... means meant academic, although Emerson presumed that schools and colleges were likely to attract people who might become scholars worthy of the name. An active mind was more important than a university degree. True scholars were ...
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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 |