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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... together with others less famous but no less important. As I've already suggested, Emerson was the kind of person who repeatedly put his prior certainties under question, even 6 when he had thrashed through a subject many times ...
... seeing famous figures freshly by reducing them to formulaic narratives of development. Emerson, by contrast, was the kind of person who 10 wanted to live each day, think each thought, write the making of a public intellectual.
... leaps more demanding. But even essays like “Experience,” so synthesized, distilled, and (re)composed as to have very little connection with 29 any antecedent lecture, bear distinct traces of the kind the making of a public intellectual.
Lawrence Buell. 29 any antecedent lecture, bear distinct traces of the kind of oral performance that was Emerson's predominant genre lifelong. Like the dramatic monologues of Robert Browning, his essays yield the most when they are not ...
... kind of books “the scholar” might write, the first thing that comes to mind is poetry. Only after a paean to lyrical imagination does he turn to history, philosophy, political science (W 1: 105). The point, though, is not that poetry ...
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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 |