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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... politics faction-ridden, the union precarious, national security threatened by European and North African powers. Its intelligentsia were painfully self-conscious of living in an outback of the modern west whose chief distinctions were ...
... political first principles, invoking the New England axiom that Puritanism was the seedbed of republican values. This axiom helped shape his mature theory of “Self-Reliance,” as we shall see in Chapter 2. So too the rhetoric of the ...
... politics and media seeking extra income and/or self-advertisement. Ministers were the largest occupational group. The lecture genre suited their training, as did the premise of entertaining instruction. Local clergy sometimes even ...
... political partisanship. Even in liberal Concord, Emerson's proposal to invite Wendell Phillips to lecture on abolitionism prompted resignations among the lyceum curators when it passed by a slim margin (JMN 9: 102). (Emerson and Thoreau ...
... political and religious views, express Emerson's disdain for the greed and philistinism of “State Street.” By the early 1850s, the movement had passed its prime and Emerson had outgrown it. His British lecture tour consolidated his ...
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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 |