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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... important to me than pressing this or any other thesis , however , is to convey the vitality of Emerson's writing , which continues to outlast the old - fashioned nineteenth - cen- tury garments it wears . Its peculiar blend of humility ...
... important as has been alleged ? Were not Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti equally if not more important influences on Emily Dickinson , for example ? Extreme dismissals are easily countered with a few citations . 146 ...
... important not to overstate here : Emerson was for Ellison much more important as a figure than as an influence . When Ellison talks in specific terms about the influence of Anglo- American writers on his work , he usually mentions ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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