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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... thought . Em- erson is typically studied in schools and colleges as a 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 ...
... thought and reform , and what I call mentorship . Emersonian " Self - Reliance , " as he preferred to call his theory of individuality , is indeed the single best key to his thought ; but it is not so simple as it is often made to seem ...
... thought , this proposition may seem strangely paradoxical . How can a figure so commonly and understandably taken as a spokes- person for U.S. national values like " American individualism " also be thought of as anticipating a ...
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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 | |