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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... social existence in the face of hostility from the pre- vailing social order and , as a representative figure , to repudiate on behalf of other African Americans the social death that slav- ery imposed . " Douglass made particularly ...
... social reorgani- zation . ” His “ cultural roots were too deep for him to envision " as a serious personal alternative a form of social life “ anything other than a purified version of free enterprise . . . or a pastoral dream of ...
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Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
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