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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... principle, are capable. He too hated all systems of human oppression; but his central project, and the basis of his legacy, was to unchain individual minds. This mission, starting with the liberation of himself, has had two particularly ...
... 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 passage: its terse ...
... principles, insofar as they could be settled, he turned to fuller examination of culture, history, and the human prospect in light of them. On the surface the shift makes the pragmatic Emerson look more conciliatory, even bland ...
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Turinys
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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 |