Emerson
Lawrence Buell (Author)
Born into the age of inspired amateurism that emerged from the ruins of pre-revolutionary political, religious, and cultural institutions, Emerson took up the challenge of thinking about the role of the United States alone and in the world. In this book Lawrence 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. Here we see the paradoxical key to his success, the fierce insistence on independence that acted so magnetically upon all around him. At a time when Americans and non-Americans alike are struggling to understand what this country is, and what it is about, Emerson gives us an answer in the figure of this representative American, an American for all, and for all times
eBook, English, 2003
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2003
Literary criticism
1 online resource (xii, 397 pages) : illustrations, portrait
9780674029064, 9780674262416, 0674029062, 0674262417
451013320
The making of a public intellectual
Emersonian self-reliance in theory and practice
Emersonian poetics
Religious radicalisms
Emerson as a philosopher?
Social thought and reform : Emerson and abolition
Emerson as anti-mentor
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English
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