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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... readers seeking a first book about Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882). The research is as up-to-date and the language as direct as I can make it. From other books on Emerson published in recent times, this one differs most visibly in two ...
... readings of his most admired essays and poems, together with others less famous but no less important. As I've already suggested, Emerson was the kind of person who repeatedly put his prior certainties under question, even when he had ...
... readers seeking a first book about Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882). The research is as up-to-date and the language as direct as I can make it. From other books on Emerson published in recent times, this one differs most visibly in two ...
... Readers already familiar with Emerson's biography may wish to begin with the next-to-last section of Chapter 1. In addition to mapping Emerson's mind and achievement, this sequence of chapters highlights certain paradoxes that account ...
... readers. The most striking qualities of Emerson's work often tend to get lost when we yield too quickly to the temptation of casting him as epitomizing the values of nation or regional tribe, instead of conceiving him in tension between ...
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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 |