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 He examines previously unpublished material and original research on Van Wyck Brooks, Perry Miller, F.O. Matthiessen, and Sacvan Bercovitch along with other supporting thinkers.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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... York, New York, 10016 www.oup.com Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means ...
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... York: Library of America, 1983). JMN The Journals and Miscellaneous 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 ...
... York: Library of America, 1983). JMN The Journals and Miscellaneous 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 ...
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... York electoral contests avidly followed (and in one case attended) by Emerson, allowed him to conceive of politics for the first time as a dynamic contest not so much over ideas as over the verbal representation of ideas. Noting in his ...
... York electoral contests avidly followed (and in one case attended) by Emerson, allowed him to conceive of politics for the first time as a dynamic contest not so much over ideas as over the verbal representation of ideas. Noting in his ...
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... York elections, in other words, eventually enabled Emerson to think about the literary as a mode capable of complicating and troping (complicating through troping) political representation, while at the same time holding out the ...
... York elections, in other words, eventually enabled Emerson to think about the literary as a mode capable of complicating and troping (complicating through troping) political representation, while at the same time holding out the ...
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... York—an election that was part of a larger pattern of divisive politics and disruptive riots that swept up and down the Atlantic coast and seemed to signal, in Richard Hofstadter's words, “the pathology of a nation growing at a speed ...
... York—an election that was part of a larger pattern of divisive politics and disruptive riots that swept up and down the Atlantic coast and seemed to signal, in Richard Hofstadter's words, “the pathology of a nation growing at a speed ...
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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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