EmersonHarvard University Press, 2004-09-30 - 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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... Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, and Matthew Arnold: a secularized ministry. 12 His lecture-essays he liked to call “lay sermons,” and many would have passed for Unitarian homilies. Some were. The main section of his first book, Nature (1836) ...
... Carlyle and Emerson and Charles Dickens to William James and Oscar Wilde, who despite their differences formed a transatlantic Victorian sodality of cultural arbiters. The Yankee lyceum system was less class-stratified than what ...
... Carlyle's jocular introduction of the word in his celebrated spiritual autobiography, Sartor Resartus (1831). Carlyle's whimsical impetuousness was claimed with partial justice as the prototype for the stylistic vagaries of his friend ...
... Carlyle (another minister's rebellious son) was probably not far from wrong when he surmised from Essays, Second Series that Emerson had become bored with the subject of “'Jesus,' &c.” (EC 371). Having settled first principles, insofar ...
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Turinys
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2 Emersonian SelfReliance in Theory and Practice | 59 |
3 Emersonian Poetics | 107 |
4 Religious Radicalisms | 158 |
5 Emerson as a Philosopher? | 199 |
Emerson and Abolition | 242 |
7 Emerson as AntiMentor | 288 |
Notes | 337 |
Acknowledgments | 383 |
Index | 385 |