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 He examines previously unpublished material and original research on Van Wyck Brooks, Perry Miller, F.O. Matthiessen, and Sacvan Bercovitch along with other supporting thinkers.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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... increasingly for action in the professionalized humanities. To counter this, I hope to show how and why particular acts of cultural and literary criticism might have felt urgent at a given time—how this admixture of history and ...
... increasingly for action in the professionalized humanities. To counter this, I hope to show how and why particular acts of cultural and literary criticism might have felt urgent at a given time—how this admixture of history and ...
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... increasingly to investigate areas of overlap and correspondence in his conception of self-reliant individualism and Jacksonian democracy. In a typical gesture, he framed these efforts within the benevolent context of a higher “moral law ...
... increasingly to investigate areas of overlap and correspondence in his conception of self-reliant individualism and Jacksonian democracy. In a typical gesture, he framed these efforts within the benevolent context of a higher “moral law ...
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... 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 groundswell of Jacksonian sentiment throughout the country, increasingly ...
... 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 groundswell of Jacksonian sentiment throughout the country, increasingly ...
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... increasingly violent. By the third election day, matters had escalated to such an extent that a group of Whig voters captured the city arsenal and armed themselves with guns against clubwielding Jacksonians. Philip Hone, a prominent ...
... increasingly violent. By the third election day, matters had escalated to such an extent that a group of Whig voters captured the city arsenal and armed themselves with guns against clubwielding Jacksonians. Philip Hone, a prominent ...
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... increasingly mobilized and even constituted by symbolic discourse. For a public speaker hoping to build upon the epochal reformation of society initiated centuries earlier by Luther and transposed to the New World imaginary by Puritan ...
... increasingly mobilized and even constituted by symbolic discourse. For a public speaker hoping to build upon the epochal reformation of society initiated centuries earlier by Luther and transposed to the New World imaginary by Puritan ...
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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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