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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... turn-of-the-century celebrants for whom he had been a familiar local presence. For few American thinkers have influ8 enced posterity in such varied and pervasive ways: its literature, 1. The Making of a Public Intellectual.
... turns, prove on close inspection knottier than they seem. Start with a life narrative and you risk falling into the predictabilities he sought to evade. But for biography of a particular sort Emerson felt a strong attraction. Plutarch's ...
... turn. (If M. M. E. finds out anything is dear & sacred to you, she instantly flings broken crockery at that [JMN 11: 259]). But in the long run such trials only strengthened Emerson's capacity for strategic detachment. Much more could ...
... better, but he would not have thought to use it as a noun. That happened only at the turn of the century. Public philosopher, the rubric by 40 which George Cotkin links Emerson to William James, would the making of a public intellectual.
... 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 intellection must be imaginative. Conversely, it was the scholar in Emerson that led him to ...
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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 |