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." |
Knygos viduje
Rezultatai 1–5 iš 73
... 3. Emersonian Poetics 107 4. Religious Radicalisms 158 5. Emerson as a Philosopher? 199 6. Social Thought and Reform: Emerson and Abolition 242 7. Emerson as Anti-Mentor 288 Notes Acknowledgments Index 337 383 385 Contents.
... social thought and reform, and what I call mentorship. Emersonian “Self-Reliance,” as he preferred to call his theory of individuality, is indeed the single best key to his thought; but it is not so simple as it is often made to seem ...
... social issues of the day. For the first thirty years of his life, however, Emerson did little to distinguish himself from respectable mediocrity. He took the predictable steps for a local minister's son headed for the same profession ...
... social thought and reform, and what I call mentorship. Emersonian “Self-Reliance,” as he preferred to call his theory of individuality, is indeed the single best key to his thought; but it is not so simple as it is often made to seem ...
... social thought. Perhaps none will again. Emerson reached maturity just as intellectual labor had begun to specialize. The country's first schools of law, medicine, and divinity had recently been founded. The industrial revolution was at ...
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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 |