Emerson's Ghosts: Literature, Politics, and the Making of AmericanistsOUP USA, 20 de set. de 2007 - 210 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 He examines previously unpublished material and original research on Van Wyck Brooks, Perry Miller, F.O. Matthiessen, and Sacvan Bercovitch along with other supporting thinkers.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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... role that lends Conway the most historical interest to contemporary schol- ars - his anomalous career as a Southern abolitionist- -was by his own admission spurred by Emerson's faith in the unfettered self . Conway's relationship to ...
... role that lends Conway the most historical interest to contemporary schol- ars - his anomalous career as a Southern abolitionist- -was by his own admission spurred by Emerson's faith in the unfettered self . Conway's relationship to ...
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... role as an abolitionist leads to a stunningly inaccurate claim in which Emerson is said to have convinced Lincoln of the practicability of emancipation ( 313-4 ) . In Conway's revisionary history , Emerson not only labors for the cause ...
... role as an abolitionist leads to a stunningly inaccurate claim in which Emerson is said to have convinced Lincoln of the practicability of emancipation ( 313-4 ) . In Conway's revisionary history , Emerson not only labors for the cause ...
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... role in the nation's future . " 20 Despite the national focus at the end of this sentence , Finseth's study is noteworthy for its suggestive positioning of Emerson in larger transnational discussions of race . Emerson's thought and ...
... role in the nation's future . " 20 Despite the national focus at the end of this sentence , Finseth's study is noteworthy for its suggestive positioning of Emerson in larger transnational discussions of race . Emerson's thought and ...
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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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