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 He examines previously unpublished material and original research on Van Wyck Brooks, Perry Miller, F.O. Matthiessen, and Sacvan Bercovitch along with other supporting thinkers.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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... seemed, as a result, susceptible to change through cultural suasion. Unlike these subsequent (and largely secular American Scholars), Emerson, convinced that “men are convertible” and “want awakening,” felt his aspirations to transform ...
... seemed, as a result, susceptible to change through cultural suasion. Unlike these subsequent (and largely secular American Scholars), Emerson, convinced that “men are convertible” and “want awakening,” felt his aspirations to transform ...
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... seemed to be leading America into an abyss of disorder and violence.” 11 Jacksonian democracy challenged Emerson's understanding of his historical moment by promulgating the inherent worth of the individual even as it encouraged the ...
... seemed to be leading America into an abyss of disorder and violence.” 11 Jacksonian democracy challenged Emerson's understanding of his historical moment by promulgating the inherent worth of the individual even as it encouraged the ...
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... seemed to signal, in Richard Hofstadter's words, “the pathology of a nation growing at a speed that defied control, governed by an ineffective leadership, impatient with authority, bedeviled by its internal heterogeneity.” 13 Citing ...
... seemed to signal, in Richard Hofstadter's words, “the pathology of a nation growing at a speed that defied control, governed by an ineffective leadership, impatient with authority, bedeviled by its internal heterogeneity.” 13 Citing ...
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... seemed to be compromised” (EL 450–451). In the last sentence meaningful social change occurs, or seems to, not so much through the determined slogans of politics—what today we would refer to as the struggle to hegemonize a field or ...
... seemed to be compromised” (EL 450–451). In the last sentence meaningful social change occurs, or seems to, not so much through the determined slogans of politics—what today we would refer to as the struggle to hegemonize a field or ...
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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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