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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Lawrence Buell. centennial for the state of “moral and material” felicity that supposedly prevailed in Massachusetts at the time of his birth.5 Though Emerson has been typed as a cultural nationalist, he would never have thought to rely ...
... moral and material” felicity that supposedly prevailed in Massachusetts at the time of his birth.5 Though Emerson has been typed as a cultural nationalist, he would never have thought to rely on America for his education. No thinker of ...
... the Scottish “Realist” or “Common Sense” theory on which Harvard/Unitarian philosophy of mind was based. It claimed to de21 rive mental and moral coherence from the empirical facts of the making public intellectual of a.
Lawrence Buell. 21 rive mental and moral coherence from the empirical facts of psychology. The skeptical portions of later Emerson essays like “Experience” and “Montaigne” strike a pose of cool detachment that seems decidedly Humean ...
... moral and spiritual issues of broad concern, glimpses of distant lands or historical periods, nondivisive treatments of current public issues, and the various branches of art and science. For example, the agenda of the Salem, Massachu25 ...
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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 |