Emerson / / Lawrence Buell.
"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 o...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2004] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (416 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations used in this book
- Introduction
- One. The Making of a Public Intellectual
- Two. Emersonian Self-Reliance in Theory and Practice
- Three. Emersonian Poetics
- Four. Religious Radicalisms
- Five. Emerson as a Philosopher?
- Six. Social Thought and Reform: Emerson and Abolition
- Seven. Emerson as Anti-Mentor
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index