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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... literary figure who advocated a doctrine of individualism . This image is not wrong , but it understates the depth of his thinking and the scope of his achievement . In fact Emerson was remarkable for having influenced thinking in a ...
... cultivate this style as a literary ac- complishment pure and simple so much as a way of thinking through an array of major ethical , spiritual , and social concerns 3 that ultimately meant far more to him than did INTRODUCTION.
Lawrence Buell. 3 that ultimately meant far more to him than did the literary as such . If you are attracted to a kind of creative writing given over to pondering how life should be led ; if you relish virtuoso displays of mental energy ...
... 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 approach is ...
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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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