Emerson's Ghosts: Literature, Politics, and the Making of AmericanistsOxford University Press, 7 de set. de 2007 - 232 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 He examines previously unpublished material and original research on Van Wyck Brooks, Perry Miller, F.O. Matthiessen, and Sacvan Bercovitch along with other supporting thinkers.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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... white, male, and Harvard-connected. My final chapter seeks to acknowledge the most important development in both fields during the past three decades or so: the fact that what was once known as a national literature and its.
... white, male, and Harvard-connected. My final chapter seeks to acknowledge the most important development in both fields during the past three decades or so: the fact that what was once known as a national literature and its.
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... Harvard's Houghton Library, Yale's Beinecke Library, and the Van Pelt Library at the University of Pennsylvania for their unfailing patience and help. My greatest intellectual debt goes to Robert Milder, interlocutor and friend, whose ...
... Harvard's Houghton Library, Yale's Beinecke Library, and the Van Pelt Library at the University of Pennsylvania for their unfailing patience and help. My greatest intellectual debt goes to Robert Milder, interlocutor and friend, whose ...
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... Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. William H. Gilman et al. (Cambridge: Belknap of Harvard University Press, 1960–1982). Cited as JMN with volume and page numbers. EMERSON ́S GHOSTS CHAPTER 1 Enter GHOST ... Thou art a Abbreviations.
... Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, ed. William H. Gilman et al. (Cambridge: Belknap of Harvard University Press, 1960–1982). Cited as JMN with volume and page numbers. EMERSON ́S GHOSTS CHAPTER 1 Enter GHOST ... Thou art a Abbreviations.
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... Harvard because it was close to Concord, for instance; F. O. Matthiessen regularly took students to Emerson's house). More important, it is to suggest that while the conjunction of idea and image may persuade individual readers to ...
... Harvard because it was close to Concord, for instance; F. O. Matthiessen regularly took students to Emerson's house). More important, it is to suggest that while the conjunction of idea and image may persuade individual readers to ...
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Emerson in the Gilded | |
How to Dismantle American Culture Van Wyck Brooks and Oppositional Criticism | |
F O Matthiessen and the Tragedy of the American Scholar | |
Perry Millers Errand into the Wilderness | |
Sacvan Bercovitch as American Scholar | |
Emersons Ghosts | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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