Book
Licensed
Unlicensed
Requires Authentication
Emerson
-
Lawrence Buell
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2004
About this book
Examining the long shadow cast by Emerson, and his role and significance as a truly American institution, Buell conveys both the style and substance of Emerson’s accomplishment—in his conception of America as the transplantation of Englishness into the new world, and in his prodigious work as writer, religious thinker, and philosopher.
Reviews
This is a splendid book, an important one, and one that will have wide appeal. This will be an indispensable book on Emerson, putting the keys to that complex man and his work into the reader's hand. If you want to know why we are still reading and talking about Emerson, start here.
-- Robert Richardson, author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire and Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind.
-- Robert Richardson, author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire and Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind.
Lawrence Buell has made it his business to set forth exciting new lines of inquiry. He has done so once again: bringing Emerson up to date, moving him away from a nation-based paradigm, and firing him up as an entry point to a global, cross-lingual circuit.
-- Wai Chee Dimock, author of Empire for Liberty.
-- Wai Chee Dimock, author of Empire for Liberty.
This book is a literary-cultural event: the harvest of the past half-century of Emersonian revaluations and the harbinger, guide, and provocation for the next generations of Emerson scholars and critics. One cannot call a work on Emerson definitive, even provisionally, but I cannot imagine that any Americanist - or for that matter, anyone interested in America, specialist or non-specialist -- will be able to do without this book in the foreseeable future.
-- Sacvan Bercovitch, author of The American Jeremiad, and The Puritan Origins of the American Self.
-- Sacvan Bercovitch, author of The American Jeremiad, and The Puritan Origins of the American Self.
This a splendid book, an important one, and one that will have wide appeal. This will be an indispensable book on Emerson, putting the keys to that complex man and his work into the reader's hand. If you want to know why we are still reading and talking about Emerson, start here.
-- Robert Richardson, author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire and Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind
-- Robert Richardson, author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire and Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind
Lawrence Buell has made it his business to set forth exciting new lines of inquiry. He has done so once again: bringing Emerson up to date, moving him away from a nation-based paradigm, and firing him up as an entry point to a global, cross-lingual circuit.
-- Wai Chee Dimock, author of Empire for Liberty
-- Wai Chee Dimock, author of Empire for Liberty
This book is a literary-cultural event: the harvest of the past half-century of Emersonian revaluations and the harbinger, guide, and provocation for the next generations of Emerson scholars and critics. One cannot call a work on Emerson definite, even provisionally, but I cannot imagine that any Americanist--or, for that matter, anyone interested in America, specialist or nonspecialist--will be able to do without this book in the foreseeable future.
-- Sacvan Bercovitch, author of The American Jeremaid and The Puritan Origins of the American Self
-- Sacvan Bercovitch, author of The American Jeremaid and The Puritan Origins of the American Self
I learned from and greatly enjoyed reading Lawrence Buell's Emerson.
-- Susan Sontag Times Literary Supplement
-- Susan Sontag Times Literary Supplement
Lawrence Buell has written a comprehensive, penetrating and timely study, the distillation of a lifetime's scholarship, of this great thinker and writer, 'the poet of ordinary days,' as his disciple, John Dewey, beautifully called him.
-- John Banville Irish Times
-- John Banville Irish Times
In this book Buell distills a lifetime of study and teaching on Emerson. Its tone is easy and confident, friendly and inviting, and Buell's aim is to share his admiration for America's first public intellectual with a new generation of readers.
-- P. J. Ferlazzo Choice
-- P. J. Ferlazzo Choice
In this book Lawrence Buell shows us why Emerson remains worth reading in our own time...What Buell has to say here about Emerson is not only persuasive but also consistently interesting, surprisingly original...and, best of all, written in straightforward, lucid language...Buell's discussion of the relationship between Emerson and his prize pupil, Henry David Thoreau, is brilliant.
-- Daniel W. Howe Common-Place
-- Daniel W. Howe Common-Place
Topics
|
Publicly Available Download PDF |
i |
|
Publicly Available Download PDF |
vii |
|
Publicly Available Download PDF |
ix |
|
Publicly Available Download PDF |
xi |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
1 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
7 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
59 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
107 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
158 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
199 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
242 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
288 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
337 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
383 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
385 |
Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
July 1, 2009
eBook ISBN:
9780674029064
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
416
eBook ISBN:
9780674029064
Audience(s) for this book
General/trade;
