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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... speak to me. Here for the first time in public Emerson becomes Emerson, the Emerson of the later essays who affirms the divinity of the self, the cornerstone of Transcendentalism. Well before this he had been preaching nearly the same ...
... speak to wider publics. It made possible a cadre of high-profile figures from Carlyle and Emerson and Charles Dickens to William James and Oscar Wilde, who despite their differences formed a transatlantic Victorian sodality of cultural ...
... speaking, which can also stand as his theory of the essay, in a lecture on Eloquence first given in the 1840s and reworked over the next twenty years. The end of eloquence is to alter in a pair of hours, perhaps in a half hour's ...
... speak at commencements and other academic occasions. In 18471848, however, he toured England, Scotland, and Ireland; and in 1850 he took the first of his annual trans-Appalachian pilgrimages. What opened up this wider field of ...
... speak in a voice of his own and almost always maintained a certain critical aloofness from prevailing pieties even when he chose nominally to defer. This we can see best by a closer look at a particular strand of Emerson's work as it ...
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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 |