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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... mind and achievement, this sequence of chapters highlights certain paradoxes that account for much of the fascination and significance of Emerson's work. No one ever made stronger claims on behalf of the individual person, yet few have ...
... mind from parochial entanglements of whatever sort. Not that he always succeeded in doing so. Sometimes the effort just led him back to stereotypes again, into programmatic tributes to the greatness of the self-sufficient individual. At ...
... mind and achievement, this sequence of chapters highlights certain paradoxes that account for much of the fascination and significance of Emerson's work. No one ever made stronger claims on behalf of the individual person, yet few have ...
... always at his most interesting when striving to free his mind from parochial entanglements of whatever sort. Not that he always succeeded in doing so. Some5 times the effort just led him back to stereotypes again, introduction.
... Mind on Fire (1995), a wonderfully discerning account of his intellectual life in a hundred incisive vignettes. Yet perhaps no Emersonian has quite faced up to his demand that biography be done differently from usual. “I would draw ...
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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 |