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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Lawrence Buell. 243 reform movements - feminism , temperance , utopian socialism , educational reform , as well as abolition . Emerson was keenly interested in them all . He knew their leaders , some of them in- timately . They looked to ...
... reform on many fronts : " the fusion of races and religions , ” free immigration , " the success of the Sanitary Commission and of the Freedman's Bureau , " advancement of political rights for women , “ the aboli- tion of capital ...
... reform he did not so much muffle his recalcitrance as put it to work . Both self - respect and persuasiveness depended on presenting himself as a scholar rather than a reform professional — a scholar whose descent to an arena in which ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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