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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... never have thought to rely on America for his education. No thinker of his generation did. Indeed throughout the century most of the nation's major writers were far more influenced by foreign models than by one another. One of Emerson's ...
... never idealized his own. He would have smiled at the nostalgia expressed by one of the orators at his centennial for the state of “moral and material” felicity that supposedly prevailed in Massachusetts at the time of his birth.5 Though ...
... never have foreseen, loss and isolation helped set him loose and make possible “his second birth,” as Richardson calls it. 6 The religious doubts that had bedeviled him for years multiplied as his mind and reading widened. Like his ...
... never resolved. But the combinations of consistent loyalty versus intervals of discord, mutual disappointment versus mutual admiration, probably had much to do both with provoking Emerson's periodic complaints about the artificiality of ...
... never but once before the age of thirty known to have been thrust into close quarters with a confirmed atheist, this was real diversity. Though partly prepared for the unpredictable by his experience as a pillar of the Concord Lyceum ...
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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 |