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 He examines previously unpublished material and original research on Van Wyck Brooks, Perry Miller, F.O. Matthiessen, and Sacvan Bercovitch along with other supporting thinkers.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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... imaginative influence Emerson has exerted over readers, and the second examines Emerson's early cultural construction by critics at the end of the nineteenth century. The next four chapters comprise individual treatments of critics of ...
... imaginative influence Emerson has exerted over readers, and the second examines Emerson's early cultural construction by critics at the end of the nineteenth century. The next four chapters comprise individual treatments of critics of ...
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... imaginative influence over certain readers and critics—to haunt them, as it were. I use the term “haunt” advisedly, not only to conjure up Harold Bloom's description of Emerson as “our ghostly father” and that sense of belatedness ...
... imaginative influence over certain readers and critics—to haunt them, as it were. I use the term “haunt” advisedly, not only to conjure up Harold Bloom's description of Emerson as “our ghostly father” and that sense of belatedness ...
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... imaginative power unleashed in literary turns and conundra, in language that is often at odds with itself. Its effect, broadly speaking, is to excite perceptual habits within a space imagined to exist somewhere between raw, unmediated ...
... imaginative power unleashed in literary turns and conundra, in language that is often at odds with itself. Its effect, broadly speaking, is to excite perceptual habits within a space imagined to exist somewhere between raw, unmediated ...
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2 Emerson in the Gilded Age | |
Van Wyck Brooks and Oppositional Criticism | |
4 FO Matthiessen and the Tragedy of the American Scholar | |
5 Perry Millers Errand into the Wilderness | |
6 Sacvan Bercovitch as American Scholar | |
7 Emersons Ghosts | |
Notes | |
Index | |
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