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Traces the monumental influence of Emerson on American literary and political thought
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo,--1803-1882--Influence, American literature--History and criticism, United States--Intellectual life, Philosophy, American.
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1988
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PS1638.M29 1988eb
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo,--1803-1882--Influence, American literature--History and criticism, United States--Intellectual life, Philosophy, American.
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American Worlds Since Emerson
David Marr
The University of Massachusetts Press Amherst 1988
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Copyright 1988 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 87-5989 ISBN 0-87023-588-5 Set in Linotron Bembo at Rainsford Type
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Marr, David, 1943 American worlds since Emerson. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 18031882Influence. 2. American literatureHistory and criticism. 3. United StatesIntellectual life. 4. Philosophy, American. I. Title. PS1638.M29 1988 814'.3 87-5989 ISBN 0-87023-588-5 (alk. paper)
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Acknowledgments for permission to reprint selections under copyright are made on page 235.
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For Susan
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction: Emerson and After
3
New Names for Old Ways of Thinking
3
Raising the "Pequod"
10
Environments of Freedom
18
The Literary Appearance of Philosophy
25
Episodes in American Literary-Philosophical History
36
Chapter One: "The Infinitude of the Private Man": Emerson's Ideas of Nature, Culture, and Politics
40
The Promise of Nature
40
The Word of Ambition
54
Emerson in Thaw
70
Chapter Two: "Come Forth, Sweet Democratic Despots of the West!": Whitman's Democratic Vistas
73
Political Theory
75
Theory of History
80
Literary Theory
86
Chapter Three: Was William James a Political Philosopher? "Vicious Intellectualism" Seen in a Political Light
92
Arendt on the Modern Age
95
James and the Relations of Consciousness
98
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"Vicious Intellectualism"
103
A Philosopher of Freedom?
118
Chapter Four: Literary "Ideas" in "An Age of True Pyrrhonism": Examples of R. P. Blackmur and Robinson Jeffers
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