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Emerson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (412 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674029064
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: EmersonDDC classification:
  • 818.3/09
LOC classification:
  • PS1638
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations used in this book -- Introduction -- 1. The Making of a Public Intellectual -- 2. Emersonian Self-Reliance in Theory and Practice -- 3. Emersonian Poetics -- 4. Religious Radicalisms -- 5. Emerson as a Philosopher? -- 6. Social Thought and Reform: Emerson and Abolition -- 7. Emerson as Anti-Mentor -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Examining the long shadow cast by Emerson, and his role and significance as a truly American institution, 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.
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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations used in this book -- Introduction -- 1. The Making of a Public Intellectual -- 2. Emersonian Self-Reliance in Theory and Practice -- 3. Emersonian Poetics -- 4. Religious Radicalisms -- 5. Emerson as a Philosopher? -- 6. Social Thought and Reform: Emerson and Abolition -- 7. Emerson as Anti-Mentor -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Examining the long shadow cast by Emerson, and his role and significance as a truly American institution, 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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