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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... 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. Chapter ...
... thought to rely on America for his education. No thinker of his generation did. Indeed throughout the century most of the nation's major writers were far more influenced by foreign models than by one another. One of Emerson's own major ...
... thought. Emerson is typically studied in schools and colleges as a literary figure who advocated a doctrine of individualism. This image is not wrong, but it understates the depth of his thinking and the scope of his achievement. In ...
... 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. Chapter ...
... thought, this proposition may seem strangely paradoxical. How can a figure so commonly and understandably taken as a spokesperson for U.S. national values like “American individualism” also be thought of as anticipating a “postnational ...
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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 |