...neither Emerson nor Parker can quite put his finger on the problem. Here, for instance, is Emerson: The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner,...playhouse; independent, irresponsible, looking out from his comer on such people and facts as pass by, he tries and sentences them on their merits, in the swift,...

...perhaps alone ours and can alone give our opinions substance. He recommends a figure to our attention: The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain ... to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. . . . Independent,...

...History, p. 67. 81. The phrase is from "Self-Reliance": "The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a good dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say ought to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature. A boy is in the parlour what the...

...voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic. It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries. Bashful or bold then, he will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary." This seems the report of a scene Emerson commonly witnesses, and given his time and place it probably...

...midst were many thoughts on male nonconformity. "The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner &- would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one," he wrote, "is the healthy attitude of human nature." This sentence would find its way eventually into...

...wanted an all-pervading spirit of suspicious resentment: 'The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a good dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do...conciliate one. is the healthy attitude of human nature' (quoted in Allen 1 9 70: 141). The ideas associated with expressive individualism are also evident...

...word's possible meanings, hence it can be related to the "ordinary" or "innocent" attitude to the world: "The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner,...conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature." In: Nina Baym (ed.): The Norton Anthology, Vol. I., p. 1 128. There is an interesting parallel between...

...thinking, he was ripe for Emerson's work, however long it would take him to find a way of writing about it: The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner,...conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken...

...process his gendering of independence. "The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner," he writes, "and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say...conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature." 8 These irresponsible and independent boys, however, are embedded within relationships of dependence,...

...anticipate them in a parenthetical remark which Leverenz omits from his quotations: the boys "should disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one." A more adequate reader of the canonical writers Leverenz discusses must be alert to the play of voices...