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 He examines previously unpublished material and original research on Van Wyck Brooks, Perry Miller, F.O. Matthiessen, and Sacvan Bercovitch along with other supporting thinkers.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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... discourses to create what Oliver Wendell Holmes described as that “Emersonian atmosphere”4 and what I am here calling a form of haunting. 5 That haunting might be critically situated somewhere between what traditional literary critics ...
... discourses to create what Oliver Wendell Holmes described as that “Emersonian atmosphere”4 and what I am here calling a form of haunting. 5 That haunting might be critically situated somewhere between what traditional literary critics ...
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... discourses, does not help us decide so much as it warns us to distrust the decisions we make. When we are required to choose one path rather than another, it reminds us to tread with a light foot and a heavy heart.” 7 Put another way ...
... discourses, does not help us decide so much as it warns us to distrust the decisions we make. When we are required to choose one path rather than another, it reminds us to tread with a light foot and a heavy heart.” 7 Put another way ...
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... discourse and with working out a way in which to enlarge and at the same time undermine the meanings contained within that discourse. In 1834 the Whig Party had formed in response to the increasing consolidation of the Democratic Party ...
... discourse and with working out a way in which to enlarge and at the same time undermine the meanings contained within that discourse. In 1834 the Whig Party had formed in response to the increasing consolidation of the Democratic Party ...
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... discourse of democracy (propaganda might be a more accurate word) increasingly favored by a newly expanded electoral franchise. This strategy has since been seen as part of a larger trend wherein antebellum speakers, adjusting to the ...
... discourse of democracy (propaganda might be a more accurate word) increasingly favored by a newly expanded electoral franchise. This strategy has since been seen as part of a larger trend wherein antebellum speakers, adjusting to the ...
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... discourse was disrupted by “the outrages of the mob,” order would be restored by the poetic Seer who could peer beyond the present tumult and announce the promise of the future: “the best sign which I can discover in the dark times ...
... discourse was disrupted by “the outrages of the mob,” order would be restored by the poetic Seer who could peer beyond the present tumult and announce the promise of the future: “the best sign which I can discover in the dark times ...
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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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