...like Thoreau or a graduate of nowhere like Whitman. The familiar words are still stirring and seminal: "Our logrolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes, and Indians, our boasts, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern...

..."the value of our incomparable materials" and vouched for their unsurpassed breadth and diversity: Our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics, our...Negroes and Indians, our boats and our repudiations [ie, the "repudiation" of their debts by some states in the Union], the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity...

...as he remarks in his 1844 essay "The Poet," banks and tariffs are "dull to dull people" but in fact rest on "the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy, and the temple of Delphi."14 To read Emerson in intertextual terms, in other words, is to deterritorialize him, to extract...

...where he called for an American genius who would reveal the vitality of life within our communities, in "our logrolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes and Indians," in the uniqueness of pioneering "the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing" (Emerson...

...to find a Helen in every Osh Kosh, Emerson wrote: "Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus" were "dull to dull people but rest on the same foundations...wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphos." There in one sentence stands the whole Lindsay crusade to re-baptize Americana with wonder, a crusade...