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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... nature, challenge, and promise of mental emancipation, whatever one's race, sex, or nation might be. That is the Emerson most worth preserving. Even more important to me than pressing this or any other thesis, however, is to convey the ...
... nature, challenge, and promise of mental emancipation, whatever one's race, sex, or nation might be. That is the Emerson most worth preserving. Even more important to me than pressing this or any other thesis, however, is to convey the ...
... Nature (1836), recycles the same fourfold sequence of nature's “uses” to humankind skeletally laid out in an early sermon. But it made a huge difference to have exchanged commitment to a restrictive institution in which he no longer ...
... the fundamental sanity of human nature no matter how benighted its actual behavior. He mastered the art of deliv15 27 ering forceful bottom-line statements even as his fast-paced, quick-shifting, the making public intellectual of a.
... operative religious category.” 18 A case in point is “Worship” (1860), his last major completed essay on the nature of religious experience. 38 Whereas Emerson's first lecture on “Religion” was given to the making of a public intellectual.
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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 |