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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... whole hovers provocatively between earnestness and sarcasm. Through such dexterously sententious, invigorating, slightly enigmatic compression, Emerson came remarkably close to achieving what he and his contemporaries never tired of ...
... whole” so that the sentences “fall from him as unregarded parts of that terrible whole which he sees and which he means that you shall see.” But the flame must be modulated by “a certain regnant calmness” (93), and the inner strength of ...
... whole world and take counsel of the bosom alone” (EL 2: 87, 86, 95). Emerson never retracted this identification of the religious with inner spiritual experience. When his publisher asked him nearly two decades later what he believed ...
... . “'Tis a whole population of gentlemen and ladies out in search of religions. 'Tis as flat anarchy in our ecclesiastic realms 39 as that which existed in Massachusetts in the Revolution” the making of a public intellectual.
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Turinys
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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 |