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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... critical aloofness from prevailing pieties even when he chose nominally to defer . This we can see best by a closer look at a particular strand of Emerson's work as it devel- oped . No one sample tells all , but we get a reasonably good ...
... , potentially including any person awakened to a state of critical thought . They were cath- olic but judicious readers who did not become overinfluenced 4 I even by favorite authors . They were thinkers THE MAKING OF A PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL.
... critical prose , the original and predominant image of Emerson is based on the tra- ditional myth of him as a prophet of American literary emer- gence , especially on the strength of " The American Scholar . " Emerson also appears ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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