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Individualism and its discontents : appropriations of Emerson, 1880-1950 / Charles E. Mitchell.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 220 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585142130
  • 9780585142135
  • 1122054718
  • 9781122054713
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Individualism and its discontents.DDC classification:
  • 810.9/005 21
LOC classification:
  • PS1642.S58 M58 1997eb
Other classification:
  • 18.06
Online resources:
Contents:
An individualism of vaporous spirituality -- The aroma of personality and the dignity of clean living -- The undersexed valetudinarian : Emerson and modern criticism -- William James and the varieties of Emerson -- W.E.B. Du Bois and the implications of pragmatism -- Inclusiveness without redundancy : William Carlos Williams in the Emersonian grain -- Emersonian refractions.
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Summary: This book explores the intertwined history of Emerson and individualism. Charles E. Mitchell begins by examining those who regarded Emersonian individualism with ambivalence or hostility, focusing on the comments of such diverse figures as Henry James, Sr., Oliver Wendell Holmes, Van Wyck Brooks, and H.L. Mencken. He then offers an alternative view as reflected in the work of William James, John Dewey, W.E.B. Du Bois, and William Carlos Williams. Each of these figures embraced Emerson's claim for the sanctity of the individual and wove it into a social vision that sought to reconcile the paradox at the heart of American life: a simultaneous devotion to the community and the individual, tradition and innovation, order and freedom.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-217) and index.

An individualism of vaporous spirituality -- The aroma of personality and the dignity of clean living -- The undersexed valetudinarian : Emerson and modern criticism -- William James and the varieties of Emerson -- W.E.B. Du Bois and the implications of pragmatism -- Inclusiveness without redundancy : William Carlos Williams in the Emersonian grain -- Emersonian refractions.

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This book explores the intertwined history of Emerson and individualism. Charles E. Mitchell begins by examining those who regarded Emersonian individualism with ambivalence or hostility, focusing on the comments of such diverse figures as Henry James, Sr., Oliver Wendell Holmes, Van Wyck Brooks, and H.L. Mencken. He then offers an alternative view as reflected in the work of William James, John Dewey, W.E.B. Du Bois, and William Carlos Williams. Each of these figures embraced Emerson's claim for the sanctity of the individual and wove it into a social vision that sought to reconcile the paradox at the heart of American life: a simultaneous devotion to the community and the individual, tradition and innovation, order and freedom.

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English.

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