The American Newness : : Culture and Politics in the Age of Emerson / / Irving Howe.
"To confront American culture is to feel oneself encircled by a thin but strong presence. I call it Emersonian, an imprecise term but one that directs us to a dominant spirit in the national experience." Thus Irving Howe, America's distinguished social critic and a longtime reader of...
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Howe, Irving, author. The American Newness : Culture and Politics in the Age of Emerson / Irving Howe. Reprint 2014 Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014] ©1986 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization ; 1986 Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- Inhalt -- EMERSON AND HAWTHORNE -- DISCIPLES AND CRITICS -- THE LITERARY LEGACY -- NOTES -- INDEX "To confront American culture is to feel oneself encircled by a thin but strong presence. I call it Emersonian, an imprecise term but one that directs us to a dominant spirit in the national experience." Thus Irving Howe, America's distinguished social critic and a longtime reader of the Sage of Concord, begins this illuminating discussion of Emerson and his disciples and doubters. What is the Emersonian spirit? What inspired it, what propelled it? And what does it mean to us today? History gave Emerson his opportunity and then took it away. Coming to manhood during the 1830s and 1840s, the time of "the newness" when Americans beheld the world with unbounded expectations, Emerson became the spokesman for the self-reliant new man he believed had arisen, ready to thrust aside mossy traditions and launch a new revolution of freewheeling thought. But the rapid pace of the American experience overtook the Emersonian vision; in the 1850s, the rising problems of slavery, a boom-and-bust economy, the vulgarity of mass culture overwhelmed the idealist. His satellite spirits wavered and shrouded the Emersonian optimism: Hawthorne, with his stories of moral breakdown; Thoreau, rooted in nature yet inclined to the cranky and fanatical; Melville, his fathomless blackness waiting beneath archetypal fables of innocence and evil also Walt Whitman, Orestes Brownson, Twain--all were influenced by, yet reacted against, the Emersonian "newness." Howe identifies three kinds of response: the literature of work (Melville and Mark Twain),the literature of Edenic fraternity (James Fenimore Cooper, Whitman, Twain again), and the literature of loss (all the post-Civil War writers). He lays before us the intellectual and personal tragedy of the first great American man of letters, yet also shows that Emerson's belief in the untapped power of free men pervades not only the lives and works of his contemporaries but is also a permanent part of the American psyche. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019) American literature. Amerikaans. Englische Literatur Amerikas. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Intellectual life. Letterkunde. Transcendentalisme. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: American History eBook Package 9783110353464 ZDB-23-HAH Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package 9783110353488 ZDB-23-HCO Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999 9783110442212 print 9780674182677 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674182707 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674182707.jpg |
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