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This critical biography traces the spiritual, psychological, and intellectual growth of one of America's foremost oracles and prophets, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882). Beginning with his undergraduate career at Harvard and spanning the range of his adult life, the book examines the complex, often painful emotional journey inward that would eventually transform Emerson from an average Unitarian minister into one of the century's most formidable intellectual figures. By connecting Emerson's inner life with his outer life, Len Gougeon illustrates a virtually seamless relationship between Emerson's Transcendental philosophy and his later career as a social reformer, a rebel who sought to "unsettle all things" in an effort to redeem his society.In tracing the path of Emerson's evolution, Gougeon makes use of insights by Joseph Campbell, Erich Neumann, Mircea Eliade, and N. O. Brown. Like Emerson, all of these thinkers directly experienced the fragmentation and dehumanization of the Western world, and all were influenced both directly and indirectly by Emerson and his philosophy. Ultimately, this study demonstrates how Emerson's philosophy would become a major force of liberal reformation in American society, a force whose impact is still felt today.

Social reformers --- Transcendentalists (New England) --- Authors, American --- Literature and myth. --- Myth and literature --- Myth --- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, --- Imarsana, Rāfa Vālḍō, --- Emerson, R. W. --- Emerson, Waldo, --- Emerson, R. Waldo --- Ėmerson, Ralʹf Uoldo, --- Ai-mo-sheng, --- Emarsan̲, --- אמרסון, רלף ולדו, --- עמערסון, ראלף וואלדא, --- Influence. --- Knowledge and learning. --- Philosophy. --- United States --- Intellectual life

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American literature --- Criticism --- Politics and literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- History and criticism&delete& --- Theory, etc --- History --- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, --- Imarsana, Rāfa Vālḍō, --- Emerson, R. W. --- Emerson, Waldo, --- Emerson, R. Waldo --- Ėmerson, Ralʹf Uoldo, --- Ai-mo-sheng, --- Emarsan̲, --- אמרסון, רלף ולדו, --- עמערסון, ראלף וואלדא, --- Criticism and interpretation --- History. --- Influence. --- Emerson, Ralph Waldo --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- United States --- 20th century --- Influence

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Theo Davis offers a fresh account of the emergence of a national literature in the United States. Taking American literature's universalism as an organising force that must be explained rather than simply exposed, she contends that Emerson, Hawthorne, and Stowe's often noted investigations of experience are actually based in a belief that experience is an abstract category governed by typicality, not the property of the individual subject. Additionally, these authors locate the form of the literary work in the domain of abstract experience, projected out of - not embodied in - the text. After tracing the emergence of these beliefs out of Scottish common sense philosophy and through early American literary criticism, Davis analyses how American authors' prose seeks to work an art of abstract experience. In so doing, she reconsiders the place of form in modern literary studies.

American literature --- Experience in literature --- Literary form --- Literature and society --- History and criticism --- History --- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel, --- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, --- Beecher Stowe, Harriet --- Beecher Stowe, Henriette --- Beecher Stowe, H. --- Stowe, Harriet Beecher --- Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth --- Bicher-Stou, Khenriet --- Stowe, H. B. --- Stou, Khenriet Bicher --- -Stowe, Enriqueta B. --- Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher --- Beecher, Harriet Elizabeth --- Bicher-Stou, G. --- Bicher-Stou, Garriet --- Stou, Garriet Bicher --- -Bicher-Stou, Ḣarrii̐et --- Bicher-Stou, Ḣ. --- Stou, Ḣarrii̐et Bicher --- -Beecher-Stowe, Harriet --- Ssu-tʻu-huo --- Beecher-Stowe, H. --- Stowe, H. Beecher --- -Bētser-Stoou --- Crowfield, Christopher --- Beecher, H. --- Sṭav, Hēriyaṭ Pīccar --- Sṭo, Haryeṭ Bits'er --- Bits'er Sṭo, Haryeṭ --- ביטשער סאאו --- ביטשער־סטאו --- סטאו, הערריעט ביטשער --- סטאו, הערריעט ביטשער, --- סטו, ביצ׳ר, --- ハリエットビーチャーストウ, --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel --- Gotorn, Nataniėlʹ --- Hotorn, Natanijel --- Huo-sang --- Huo-sang, Na-sa-ni-erh --- Hothorna, Netheniyala --- Готорн, Натаниэль --- האטארן, נאטאניעל, --- Huosang --- Huosang, Nasa'nier --- Nasa'nier Huosang --- 霍桑, --- 霍桑, 纳撒尼尔, --- 纳撒尼尔 霍桑, --- Hās̲ūran, Nātānīl --- Hās̲ūrn, Nātānīl --- هاثورن، ناتانيل --- Imarsana, Rāfa Vālḍō, --- Emerson, R. W. --- Emerson, Waldo, --- Emerson, R. Waldo --- Ėmerson, Ralʹf Uoldo, --- Ai-mo-sheng, --- Emarsan̲, --- אמרסון, רלף ולדו, --- עמערסון, ראלף וואלדא, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- United States --- Intellectual life --- Experience in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature