Emerson's Ghosts: Literature, Politics, and the Making of AmericanistsOxford University Press, USA, 7 de set. de 2007 - 194 páginas It is increasingly commonplace to find scholars who circle back to Ralph Waldo Emerson and his intellectual heirs as a way of better understanding contemporary social and aesthetic contexts. Why does Emerson's cultural legacy continue to influence writers so forcefully? In this innovative study, Randall Fuller examines the way pivotal twentieth-century critics have understood and deployed Emerson as part of their own larger projects aimed at reconceiving America. He examines previously unpublished material and original research on Van Wyck Brooks, Perry Miller, F.O. Matthiessen, and Sacvan Bercovitch along with other supporting thinkers. An engaging institutional history of American literary studies in the twentieth century, Emerson's Ghosts reveals the unexpected convergent forces that have shaped American cultural history in lasting ways. |
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... individuals . In some rather striking ways , Emerson's position in 1834 prefigures that of many public intellectuals ... individual even as it encour- aged the grasp and scramble of uninhibited materialism . In his response to the ...
... individuals . In some rather striking ways , Emerson's position in 1834 prefigures that of many public intellectuals ... individual even as it encour- aged the grasp and scramble of uninhibited materialism . In his response to the ...
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... individual's judg- ment , allegiances , actions and identity . " 37 But Matthiessen's discomfort differs from that of many previous critics in the way it conflates Em- erson's insistence upon the individual as simultaneously a political ...
... individual's judg- ment , allegiances , actions and identity . " 37 But Matthiessen's discomfort differs from that of many previous critics in the way it conflates Em- erson's insistence upon the individual as simultaneously a political ...
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... individual with society , how to join his sentences into a paragraph " ( AR 66 ) . Matthiessen's fusion of Emerson's fragmentary aesthetic with his advocacy of the unfettered self suggests , on the one hand , a straining to locate a ...
... individual with society , how to join his sentences into a paragraph " ( AR 66 ) . Matthiessen's fusion of Emerson's fragmentary aesthetic with his advocacy of the unfettered self suggests , on the one hand , a straining to locate a ...
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The Haunting of American Literature | 3 |
Emerson in the Gilded Age | 27 |
How to Dismantle American Culture | 49 |
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