EmersonHarvard University Press, 2003-05-25 - 416 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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... Emer- son for the way Americans today fetishize self - esteem . In fact Taylor could have found in Emerson's writing both the positive expression and the critique of the hazards of what Taylor else- where calls " the ethics of ...
... Emer- sonian Self - Reliance . " Written in Emerson's Essays ” honors the " voice oracular " that " hath peal'd to - day , " inspiring the speaker to feel that " the seeds of godlike power are in us still . ” In “ Self- Dependence ...
... Emer- son ) , who mistakenly took his critique of evangelical missionary trinitarianism to mean that he was one of them . Brahmo Samaj was the most westernized and most intellectualized of several nineteenth - century Indian movements ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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