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Title
Emerson / Lawrence Buell.
Author
Buell, Lawrence.
ISBN
0674011392 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003.
Language
English
Description
xii, 397 p. : port. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
PS1638 .B84 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification
814/.3
Summary
Born into the age of inspired amateurism that emerged from the ruins of pre-revolutionary political, religious, and cultural institutions, Emerson took up the challenge of thinking about the role of the United States alone and in the world. In this book Lawrence Buell conveys both the style and substance of Emerson's accomplishment--in his conception of America as the transplantation of Englishness into the new world, and in his prodigious work as writer, religious thinker, and philosopher. Here we see the paradoxical key to his success, the fierce insistence on independence that acted so magnetically upon all around him. At a time when Americans and non-Americans alike are struggling to understand what this country is, and what it is about, Emerson gives us an answer in the figure of this representative American, an American for all, and for all times.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
The making of a public intellectual
Emersonian self-reliance in theory and practice
Emersonian poetics
Religious radicalisms
Emerson as a philosopher?
Social thought and reform : Emerson and abolition
Emerson as anti-mentor.
Emersonian self-reliance in theory and practice
Emersonian poetics
Religious radicalisms
Emerson as a philosopher?
Social thought and reform : Emerson and abolition
Emerson as anti-mentor.