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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... scholars and for nonspecialist readers seeking a first book about Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882). The research is as ... scholar or intellectual. Readers already familiar with Emerson's biography may wish to begin with the next-to-last ...
... scholars and for nonspecialist readers seeking a first book about Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882). 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 ...
... scholar or intellectual. 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 ...
... scholar's special organ, the brain. Emerson used his favorite self-identifying term, scholar, in a disruptively antiprofessional sense: to commend independentminded thinking that makes knowledge subserve thought rather than vice versa ...
... scholar or Man Thinking (W 1: 53): intellectual vitality as self-sustaining lived experience. (More on this irony of gender anon, that a woman should have been Emerson's first model for an ideal he consistently imaged as male.) 9 ...
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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 |