Emerson's Ghosts : Literature, Politics, and the Making of Americanists.
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Oxford Scholarship Online 2007. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- 1 The Haunting of American Literature
- 2 Emerson in the Gilded Age
- 3 How to Dismantle American Culture58; Van Wyck Brooks and Oppositional Criticism
- 4 F46;O46; Matthiessen and the Tragedy of the American Scholar
- 5 Perry Millers Errand into the Wilderness
- 6 Sacvan Bercovitch as 8220;American8221; Scholar
- 7 Emersons Ghosts
- Notes
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- J
- K
- L
- M
- M
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
- Last Page.