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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... Emersonian thinking in a tradition of " expressive moralism " that opposed " conventional [ bourgeois ] economic assumptions about life " with " a deeper vision of the human spirit . " Wuthnow further claims that latter - day moral ...
... Emersonian equivalent of Moby - Dick's Captain Ahab . Like Melville's Ahab , Emerson's Napoleon is an offbeat symbol of the new entrepre- neur , the captain of industry . Both offer the exciting prospect of the common man transfigured ...
... Emersonian difference . " 16 Emerson does indeed express that desire . Influ- ential contemporaries made much of it , like Whitman ( approv- ingly ) and Melville ( critically ) . But it is not the whole truth about Emersonian aesthetics ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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