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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Emerson, Ralph Waldo,-1803-1882-Criticism and interpretation. United States-Intellectual life-19th century.