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 He examines previously unpublished material and original research on Van Wyck Brooks, Perry Miller, F.O. Matthiessen, and Sacvan Bercovitch along with other supporting thinkers.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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... Journal of the American Renaissance 45 (1999): 97–129. Reprinted with permission. Copyright 2000 by the Board of Regents of Washington State University. Chapter 5 first appeared as “Errand into the Wilderness: Perry Miller as American ...
... Journal of the American Renaissance 45 (1999): 97–129. Reprinted with permission. Copyright 2000 by the Board of Regents of Washington State University. Chapter 5 first appeared as “Errand into the Wilderness: Perry Miller as American ...
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... 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. EMERSON ́S GHOSTS CHAPTER 1 Enter GHOST ...
... 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. EMERSON ́S GHOSTS CHAPTER 1 Enter GHOST ...
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... journals to create collage-like assemblages of apothegms as well as by deliberately eliminating transitions from thought to thought so that the reader is forced to construe meaning in the spaces between sentences—he ensured that the ...
... journals to create collage-like assemblages of apothegms as well as by deliberately eliminating transitions from thought to thought so that the reader is forced to construe meaning in the spaces between sentences—he ensured that the ...
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... journal that “the idea is deep & pervades the whole mass of men & institutions,” Emerson concluded a post-election entry with a radically new understanding that it was “words the antagonist party oppose & revile & therefore on these ...
... journal that “the idea is deep & pervades the whole mass of men & institutions,” Emerson concluded a post-election entry with a radically new understanding that it was “words the antagonist party oppose & revile & therefore on these ...
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... -Soul 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.
... -Soul 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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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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