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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... kind of per- formance artist who favored a highly imaginative , improvisa- tional style of expression , often playfully ironic yet also deeply serious . But he did not cultivate this style as a literary ac- complishment pure and simple ...
... kind of creative writing given over to pondering how life should be led ; if you relish virtuoso displays of mental energy and " inspired " thinking that doesn't try to fill in all the blanks ; if you find yourself vexed by the ...
... kind in arguing that we need to think of Emerson not in terms of a single cultural context or scale but four : the regional - ethnic , the national , the transatlan- tic , and the global . The Emerson who emerges from this book was ...
... less famous but no less important . As I've already suggested , Emerson was the kind of person who repeatedly put his prior certainties under question , even 6 when he had thrashed through a subject many times INTRODUCTION.
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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 | |