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In This Innovative Study Of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Conception Of The Scholar, Merton Sealts Sheds New Light On Emerson's Attainment Of His Influential Position In Nineteenth-century Intellectual, Cultural, And Literary History. Sealts Is The First Author To Go Beyond Henry Nash Smith's Statement, The Scholar Is The Hero Of Emerson's Unwritten Prelude--the Protagonist Of His Spiritual Autobiography--by Systematically Examining The Development And Testing Of The Scholar As Emerson's Idealized Self-image. During The 1830s, After Emerson Had Resigned His Boston Pulpit And Was Seeking A New Vocation, He Began To Conceive Of The Scholar As Someone Who Could Think For And Speak To All Mankind. From That Time On, Emerson Adopted The Scholar's Angle Of Vision As His Own And Began To Measure His Private And Professional Life Against His Often-invoked Conception Of The True Scholar. Part I Of Emerson On The Scholar Shows How Emerson Came To Think Of The Ideal Scholar As The Intellectual Man, The Thinker, And Finally As Man Thinking. His Image Of What The True Scholar Should Be Remained Essentially Unchanged, But His Idea Of How The Scholar Should Respond To Public Issues Gradually Altered Duri

Author

Merton M. Sealts, Jr

Publisher

Columbia: University of Missouri Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826208316

Subjects

Computer Science, Literary Fiction, Humanities