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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... it understates the depth of his thinking and the scope of his achievement . In fact Emerson was remarkable for having influenced thinking in a wide range of areas , not just one 2 or two . Chapters 3 through 7 dramatize this Introduction.
... fact is that Emerson had surprisingly limited patience for nationalism as such and would probably have been far more supportive than critical of the increasing interest being taken today by historians of U.S. culture in how it has been ...
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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 |
385 | |