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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... things matter to you, then Emerson's writing probably will too. This book's other most visibly distinctive feature is its portrayal of Emerson as a national icon who at the same time anticipates the globalizing age in which we ...
... things” of “their own creation.” A man becomes a “Lexicon,” a “money chest,” “the treadle of a factory wheel,” “a tassel at the apron string of 9 society” (EL 2: 196). For Marx, the path to the making of a public intellectual.
... thing to say I reject something because of x, y, and z. It's quite another to say I reject it because it doesn't suit me, it doesn't speak to me. Here for the first time in public Emerson becomes Emerson, the Emerson of the later essays ...
... things which I have meditated for their own sake” rather than “with a view to that occasion” (JMN 4: 335). In practice, he did accommodate himself somewhat. In time, his style became more accessible, more anecdotal, more droll. Just as ...
... thing that comes to mind is poetry. Only after a paean to lyrical imagination does he turn to history, philosophy, political science (W 1: 105). The point, though, is not that poetry puts all other writing in the shade but that ...
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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 |