Emerson

Title: Emerson
Author: Lawrence Buell
G: 1706088
ISBN: 9780674011397
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 416
Section: Literary Collections | Essays
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man, Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote - an in this book, the leading scholar of New England literary culture looks at the long shadow Emerson himself has cast, and at his role and significance as a truly American institution. On the occasion of Emerson's 200th birthday, Lawrence Buell revisits the life of the nation's first public intellectual and discovers how he became a representative man.