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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Fuller, Randall, 1963- Emerson's ghosts. New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 (DLC) 2006037233 (OCoLC)76064731 |
Named Person: | Ralph Waldo Emerson; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Randall Fuller |
ISBN: | 9780198042822 0198042825 |
OCLC Number: | 190864472 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 194 pages) |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | Haunting of American literature -- Emerson in the Gilded Age -- How to dismantle American culture : Van Wyck Brooks and oppositional criticism -- F.O. Matthiessen and the tragedy of the American scholar -- Perry Miller's errand into the wilderness -- Sacvan Bercovitch as "American" scholar -- Emerson's ghosts. |
Other Titles: | Literature, politics, and the making of Americanists |
Responsibility: | Randall Fuller. |
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Emerson's Ghosts uses the beacon of America's exemplary intellectual to cast sharp new light on the tragic careers of later American scholars. Its case studies embrace both public intellectuals and professors who helped to define what we do when we do American Studies. Deeply researched, eloquently written, and without cant, this book establishes Randall Fuller as someone to hear more from. * Jonathan Arac, Mellon Professor of English, U of Pittsburgh * Randall Fuller presents a lucid, persuasive, and concise analysis of Emerson's political and literary maturation and his recognition of the creative, and potentially liberating, tensions between thought and action, language and reality, aesthetics and history. His illuminating reading of Emerson's "The American Scholar," demonstrates why he believes that essay has structured the fields of American literary criticism and American studies and inspired everygeneration of Americanists. In careful studies of the work of Van Wyck Brooks, F.O Mattthiessen, Perry Miller, and Sacvan Bercovitch, and others, Fuller shows how critics have interpreted Emerson and applied his thought and belief in the potential of literature to shape and change American culture andsociety. This is an important and exciting accomplishment. * Emory Elliott, Distinguished Professor of English, University of California, Riverside * In Emerson's Ghosts Randall Fuller remaps American criticism, showing persuasively how Emerson has haunted Americanist critics with his vision of a public intellectual who can speak with authority and influence to his culture. Emerson's "scholar" offered a divided culture a promise of unity and just purpose, an achievement that critics such as Van Wyck Brooks, F. O. Matthiessen, Perry Miller and Sacvan Bercovitch have both distrusted and desired. Emerson'sGhosts is an important contribution to Emerson studies, and a perceptive identification of one of the most influential lines of analysis of United States culture as a whole. * David M. Robinson, author of Emerson and the Conduct of Life * Read more...


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- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, -- 1803-1882 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, -- 1803-1882 -- Influence.
- American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
- Criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, -- 1803-1882.
- Criticism.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Politics and literature.
- United States.