... Transcenden- talist, receiving serious reconsideration in Brenda Wineapple’s narrative of his friendship with Emily Dickinson, and playing an important role in Leslie Butler’s important study of transatlantic Victorian reform. i  Emerson a. Emerson, Friendship, and Self-Culture  Always the property...

...), to be discussed more fully below, also treat Emer- son’s engagement with the problem of slavery. In contrast to Reynolds and Rowe, Len Gougeon’s “Emerson, Self-Reliance, and the Politics of Democracy” ( pp. 185–220) affirms an essential continuity in the develop- ment of Emerson’s transcendental politics...

... action as the essential form of religious experience. b. Historical Contexts: Biography and Authorial Career Kenneth S. Sacks in Understanding Emerson: ‘‘The American Scholar’’ and His Struggle for Self-Reliance (Princeton) has made an important contribution to the Emerson Bicentennial...

... on offer. Emer- sonian self-reliance, interpreted as “an ideology of the unencumbered self,” is but one of these forms. When unrecognized or incompletely 6 Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, and Transcendentalism resisted, such an ideology is seen to “promote the establishment...

... to Emerson’s ‘‘public advocacy of much of the o Ycial women’s rights platform but argues that they held ‘‘competing models of the self ’s motive power In the early 1840s Fuller began to envision ‘‘the female psyche in terms of the harmonious balanc- ing of ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ powers...

...) examines Emerson’s ‘‘new American testament’’ of self-trust, a key to his stature as ‘‘a principal architect of American culture Bosco supplements his case for Emerson’s centrality to American culture with his essay ‘‘We Find What We Seek: Emerson and His Biographers’’ (pp. 269–90), which delineates...

... “solipsistic isolation and alienation” as much as he did conformity. The tendency to self-alienate, to conform, or to judge according to one’s own narrow interests produces what Zakaras terms the complicit or “docile individual.” It is the primary work of self- culture to disrupt and reform...

... of self-determination and sovereigntist assump- tions in Wake eld What Sort of Man Was Wake eld Selfhood and Sovereignty in Nathaniel Hawthorne s Twice-Told Tale, NHR : ). Hawthorne s story, originally published in , is rife with anxieties about the ambiguous nature of selfhood, which Boccio sees...

...” of Emerson’s “mosaic” prose suggests a thinker less engaged by historical particularities than oriented toward a “moral universalism.” His theory of “self-reliance,” Buell notes, has important affinities with “modern human rights discourse.” Phyllis Cole’s “Emerson at 200” (RALS 30: 316–30...

... between the leadership of The Dial—Emerson and Fuller—who valued individual spiritual growth and self-expression, and social reformers like Brownson, Ripley, and, increasingly, Parker, contin- ued to grow.” This split did not so much signal internal strife among the Transcendentalists...

... of Hawthorne’s narrative works of art must be decided by each reader, upon whom it falls to look to the narratives as means to re-establish a bond to their creator, or to turn them into symbolic vehicles for his own self-expression.” Framed by introductory and concluding chapters, The Half-Vanished...

... of that novel—the connection between language and sin, self-inquisition and identity, silence and speech, desire and community—as well as a graceful review of current thinking about the work. At home in Haw- thorne’s various worlds, the one that he made and the ones he imagined, as well as the worlds...

... and Intersubjectivity (American Literary History : ) eo Davis puts a new and compelling spin on the old argument that Emersonian self-reliance is fundamentally patho- logical. Using Daniel Stern s attachment theory, Davis argues that as a child Emerson did not experience the safe and consistent nurturing necessary...

... “a theory, ethics, and rhetoric of transformation.” Robert Cummings Neville’s “Self-Reliance and the Portability of Pragmatism” ( pp. 93–107) traces a key Emersonian concept in conversations about American pragmatism from Jonathan Edwards through John Dewey and Charles Sanders Peirce; Neville’s...

... a faith based on “inward revelation,” Emerson “did not question the historical positivity of the Jesus tradition” and con- tinued to maintain an idealism that affirmed a world “independent of the self.” In his later career he did not succumb to despair or fatalism but sustained an “optimistic...

... differences in scale and speed do not threaten the self.” Chapter 3 focuses on compositional methods that Bishop learned from the collages of Kurt Schwitters, who arranged materials to modu- late to and away from one another by tiny resemblances and differences, bringing into play modulations from...

... interesting than usual readings of it as a critique of Western imperial- ism and modern news media. If Rosenbaum is right, Bishop “does not criticize the news media, but, rather, reflects on the connections between her war poetry and the wartime news: her irony is self-directed rather than self...

... culture is a distorting and unbalancing force when operating unchecked. David Bromwich focuses on ‘‘Self- Reliance’’ to describe ‘‘The American Psychosis’’ (Raritan 21, iv: 33–63), an ‘‘antinomian’’ way of living in which ‘‘self is real and society a bond- age Forgetting the religious nature...

... of interpretation,” employing passages from “Self-Reliance” to initiate a dialogue of philosophers from the perfectionist tradition with classic American cinema. Cavell is alert to the “utopian moment in moral thinking” in which the individual is chal- lenged to consent to the established social...

... alone, taking their bottle around the corner or across the park to drink. Millier remarks, “A drunken man may be amusing; a drunk woman is not.” Female poets tend to be far more restrained in their self-representations as drinkers and drunkards, but Millier contends that alcohol and alcoholism...