...violent shunning, whereas Emerson's and Thoreau's worlds begin with or after the shunning of others ("I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me") and typically depict the "I" just beside itself. The interest of the connection is that all undertake...

...especially to educated society" (p. 73). In "Self-Reliance" the parody is as plain as the allusion: "I shun father and mother and wife and brother when...would write on the lintels of the doorpost, Whim" (p. 150). The shunning reference is to the call to enter the kingdom of heaven at once, today, to follow...

...of their teaching. CHAPTER 2 Civilization and its discontents : Rousseau on man's natural goodness 'Your goodness must have some edge to it, -else it is none.' RW Emerson, 'Self-Reliance' (1841) INTRODUCTION TO ROUSSEAU S POLITICAL THOUGHT Rousseau's political...

..."lying hospitality and lying affection." The remedy for this falsity, he said, was to speak the truth: "Your goodness must have some edge to it, — else...the doctrine of love, when that pules and whines." Spurred by British example and a broader cultural hunger for forthrightness, Poe established himself...

...works demonstrate that it more closely resembles assault with a deadly weapon where woman are involved. "I shun father and mother and wife and brother when...would write on the lintels of the door-post Whim," Emerson blithely informs us. 15 In innumerable instances Glaspell's fiction and drama demonstrate how...

...tell apart. But in moods like these it is useful to recall two further sentences from "SelfReliance": "Your goodness must have some edge to it, — else...the doctrine of love, when that pules and whines." Against the bureaucrats of sexual, racial, ethnic, and religious purity, who invoke with such misleading...

...points out in "Emerson and the Virtues,"38 even those who did belong to Emerson did not fare better: I shun father and mother and wife and brother when...genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation....

...last reference to Emerson evokes another aspect of genius — singleminded dedication to one's work: "I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me." Once again the image which Emerson evokes refers to a high level of self-esteem, in this case, the...

...Such a liberatory figure would be so socially disengaged as to hold even his own kin of small account: "I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me."46 But he would in the end enjoy the fullest reward for his aloofness, since he would be "exercising...

...violent shunning, whereas Emerson's and Thoreau's worlds begin with or after the shunning of others ("I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me") and typically depict the "I" just beside itself. The interest of the connection is that all undertake...