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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... Lives of Emerson , " as one critic warns , " consistently spell the death of Emerson's text . " Biography can keep us from seeing famous figures freshly by reducing ... live each day , think each thought THE MAKING OF A PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL.
Lawrence Buell. 10 wanted to live each day , think each thought , write each sen- tence , without being bound by what ... Lives of Eminent Greeks and Romans was a fa- vorite book . ( He required his son to read two pages of it " every ...
... live in a swamp , but a man was not made to live in a swamp . Yours ever , R. " ( JMN 14 : 204 ) . Yet Emerson was keenly inter- ested in Thoreau's late - life nature studies . Most of his journal accounts of walks with Thoreau date ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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