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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... ironic yet also deeply serious. But he did not cultivate this style as a literary accomplishment pure and simple so much as a way of thinking through an array of major ethical, spiritual, and social concerns that Introduction.
... not cultivate this style as a literary accomplishment pure and simple so much as a way of thinking through an array of major ethical, spiritual, and social concerns 3 that ultimately meant far more to him than did introduction.
... spiritual issues of broad concern, glimpses of distant lands or historical periods, nondivisive treatments of current public issues, and the various branches of art and science. For example, the agenda of the Salem, Massachu25 setts ...
... spiritual autobiography, Sartor Resartus (1831). Carlyle's whimsical impetuousness was claimed with partial justice as the prototype for the stylistic vagaries of his friend Emerson, who oversaw the American publication of Carlyle's ...
... spiritual experience. When his publisher asked him nearly two decades later what he believed “of Jesus & prophets,” he replied “that it seemed to me an impiety to be listening to one & another, when the pure Heaven was pouring itself ...
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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 |