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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... sense that there is something true about the unnamed " distinc- tion " that flashed in the mind , and in the sense that the discov- ery experience is offered as a model of how thought works . The " I " of the passage is not the ...
... sense of duty must look out that they are not misled by their innate " hankering to play Prov- idence " ( LL 1 : 168 ) . Most discussions of Emerson as reformer boil down to whether , when , and to what extent he actively furthered re ...
... sense , his career shows even more dramatically than those of Thoreau , Whitman , and Santayana the persistence of Emersonianism as a sustaining force even within the careers and writings of outspoken critics of Emerson's narrowness ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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