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 He examines previously unpublished material and original research on Van Wyck Brooks, Perry Miller, F.O. Matthiessen, and Sacvan Bercovitch along with other supporting thinkers.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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... democracy (with democracy as commodity), the shift from production to consumption, the emergence of ever-more encompassing and connective communications technologies, mass media, the Manichean division of the world (at least for a ...
... democracy (with democracy as commodity), the shift from production to consumption, the emergence of ever-more encompassing and connective communications technologies, mass media, the Manichean division of the world (at least for a ...
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... Democratic Party, while a series of riots in Boston and elsewhere along the Eastern seaboard marked “the opening salvos ... of a new period of civil disorder in Jacksonian America.” 10 These events, especially as they were manifested in ...
... Democratic Party, while a series of riots in Boston and elsewhere along the Eastern seaboard marked “the opening salvos ... of a new period of civil disorder in Jacksonian America.” 10 These events, especially as they were manifested in ...
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... with formulations of America, democracy, the Other, or a fluid and flexible identity —is particularly apparent in a February journal entry: “A new new audience[,] a Sabbath affords an opportunity of communicating thought.
... with formulations of America, democracy, the Other, or a fluid and flexible identity —is particularly apparent in a February journal entry: “A new new audience[,] a Sabbath affords an opportunity of communicating thought.
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... Democratic Party—a party (according to Maurice Gonnaud's still excellent account) that resembled nothing Emerson ... democracy challenged Emerson's understanding of his historical moment by promulgating the inherent worth of the ...
... Democratic Party—a party (according to Maurice Gonnaud's still excellent account) that resembled nothing Emerson ... democracy challenged Emerson's understanding of his historical moment by promulgating the inherent worth of the ...
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... Democrats into a grander conception of organic growth is particularly evident in a contemporaneous passage that ... Democratic politics to his vocational aspirations, reconceiving the upstart party as a potential, if temporary, ally ...
... Democrats into a grander conception of organic growth is particularly evident in a contemporaneous passage that ... Democratic politics to his vocational aspirations, reconceiving the upstart party as a potential, if temporary, ally ...
Conteúdo
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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