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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... tribe. By age twenty-six, he had seemingly realized his ambitions. He was settled with a young bride in a pastoral post that placed him among the professional elite in New England's metropolis, with income enough to make him.
... young bride in a pastoral post that placed him among the professional elite in New England's metropolis, with income enough to make him a financial anchor for his siblings and widowed mother. Then his life changed drastically. His wife ...
... Young Emerson was highly susceptible to American oratory, but generally contemptuous of American print culture. Before 1835 not a single American book touched him deeply apart from James Marsh's edition of Coleridge's Aids (1829) ...
... Young America groups in New York. The movement's nucleus and its close allies numbered perhaps several dozen people, most of old New England stock from well-bred families of greater Boston. Most were linked to Unitarianism, the sect ...
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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 |