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 He examines previously unpublished material and original research on Van Wyck Brooks, Perry Miller, F.O. Matthiessen, and Sacvan Bercovitch along with other supporting thinkers.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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... response to the increasing consolidation of the 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 ...
... response to the increasing consolidation of the 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 ...
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... response to the political party Emerson oscillated between millennial optimism in the approaching transformation of society and despair over the apparently insurmountable divisiveness of a covetous and distinctly uncivic life. While ...
... response to the political party Emerson oscillated between millennial optimism in the approaching transformation of society and despair over the apparently insurmountable divisiveness of a covetous and distinctly uncivic life. While ...
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... response from Emerson for the simple reason that he was in Boston when they occurred. But the riots—and the political agons they violently emulated—were by no means remote to him, especially since his older brother William lived in the ...
... response from Emerson for the simple reason that he was in Boston when they occurred. But the riots—and the political agons they violently emulated—were by no means remote to him, especially since his older brother William lived in the ...
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... response to the threat posed by the New York Democrats was to transform obstacles into opportunities: “Let the worst come to the worst & the Whig cause be crushed for a season & the Constitution be grossly violated[,]” he notes, “then ...
... response to the threat posed by the New York Democrats was to transform obstacles into opportunities: “Let the worst come to the worst & the Whig cause be crushed for a season & the Constitution be grossly violated[,]” he notes, “then ...
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... response to his newfound “egalitarianism”; as he recorded in his diary with the characteristic tone of priggish selfcongratulation, his speech was “one of the few cases in which I succeeded in satisfying myself, and judging by the ...
... response to his newfound “egalitarianism”; as he recorded in his diary with the characteristic tone of priggish selfcongratulation, his speech was “one of the few cases in which I succeeded in satisfying myself, and judging by the ...
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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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