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 He examines previously unpublished material and original research on Van Wyck Brooks, Perry Miller, F.O. Matthiessen, and Sacvan Bercovitch along with other supporting thinkers.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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... transformations upon individuals in ways that remain to some extent mysterious and unpredictable. Emersonian ... transformation while remaining multivalent enough to suggest numerous, and often conflicting, transformations. These ...
... transformations upon individuals in ways that remain to some extent mysterious and unpredictable. Emersonian ... transformation while remaining multivalent enough to suggest numerous, and often conflicting, transformations. These ...
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... Transformation. For Emerson, the literary would be an always fertile, sometimes communal, site where he might address and even mold perspectives, sympathies, and ideologies. As a practitioner of the literary, he aspired to provoke ...
... Transformation. For Emerson, the literary would be an always fertile, sometimes communal, site where he might address and even mold perspectives, sympathies, and ideologies. As a practitioner of the literary, he aspired to provoke ...
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... transforming and even activating individuals. In some rather striking ways, Emerson's position in 1834 prefigures ... transform culture authorized by his religious sense that “the highest revelation is that God is in every man” (JMN 4 ...
... transforming and even activating individuals. In some rather striking ways, Emerson's position in 1834 prefigures ... transform culture authorized by his religious sense that “the highest revelation is that God is in every man” (JMN 4 ...
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... transformation of society and despair over the apparently insurmountable divisiveness of a covetous and distinctly uncivic life. While sympathetic to the conservative ideals of a patrician stewardship then in the process of being ...
... transformation of society and despair over the apparently insurmountable divisiveness of a covetous and distinctly uncivic life. While sympathetic to the conservative ideals of a patrician stewardship then in the process of being ...
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... -artist might initiate a transformation of the social, economic, and political system of individualism into the realization of an independent, autarchic self.12 14 For Emerson, this dilemma culminated during and after the.
... -artist might initiate a transformation of the social, economic, and political system of individualism into the realization of an independent, autarchic self.12 14 For Emerson, this dilemma culminated during and after 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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