EmersonHarvard University Press, 2004-09-30 - 397 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." |
Turinys
The Making of a Public Intellectual | 7 |
Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
Emerson as a Philosopher? | 199 |
Social Thought and Reform Emerson and Abolition | 242 |
Emerson as AntiMentor | 288 |
Notes | 337 |
Acknowledgments | 383 |
385 | |