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." |
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... American individualism " also be thought of as anticipating a " postnational " form of con- sciousness ? Yet the fact is that Emerson had surprisingly limited patience for nationalism as such and would probably have been far more ...
... American literary and philosophical pragmatism and discounted as a less credible spokesman for American democra- tization and cultural pluralism than Frederick Douglass or even Harriet Beecher Stowe and James Fenimore Cooper . My own ...
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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 |
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