Emerson

Lawrence Buell

  • Honorable Mention, Association of American Publishers 2003 Professional/Scholarly Publishing Annual Award in Biography; Autobiography
  • 2003 Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism, Sponsored by The Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies at Western Kentucky University
  • 2004 Christian Gauss Award, Offered Annually by Ph Beta Kappa

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations Used in This Book

Introduction

1. The Making of a Public Intellectual

2. Emersonian Self-Reliance in Theory and Practice

3. Emersonian Poetics

4. Religious Radicalisms

5. Emerson as a Philosopher?

6. Social Thought and Reform: Emerson and Abolition

7. Emerson as Anti-Mentor

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: Emerson
  • A photo of the author

Lawrence Buell is Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University.