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Strains of Eloquence : Emerson and His Sermons by Wesley T. Mott (1990, Library Binding)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPennsylvania STATE University Press
ISBN-100271006609
ISBN-139780271006604
eBay Product ID (ePID)69709
Product Key Features
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameStrains of Eloquence : Emerson and His Sermons
Publication Year1990
SubjectUnited States / 19th Century, Sermons / Christian, General, American / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Religion, History
AuthorWesley T. Mott
FormatLibrary Binding
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight1.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN88-028123
Dewey Edition19
Dewey Decimal252/.08
SynopsisThe sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson were central to his emergence as thinker and writer. This is the first extended study of the formative role of these long-neglected documents. Wesley Mott explores major topics and issues in Emerson scholarship: his vocational self-image; the significance and meaning of such quintessentially Emersonian concepts as self-reliance, the over-soul, and compensation; his sense of language his vision of America; his relation to Puritanism. Emerson s aphorisms, taken out of context, have enabled readers of every stamp to enlist him in their cause. Reformers, on the one hand, have claimed him as a prophet of social change, while, on the other hand, Henry Ford and Woody Hayes have found him a champion of conservative American values. These seemingly contradictory elements can be reconciled in large part by an understanding of Emerson s roots in liberal Christianity and of his lifelong religious habits of mind. Instead of regarding Emerson s career as a series of distinct stages (as Stephen Whicker did in Freedom and Fate), Mott emphasizes the essential continuity of his growth. David Robinson has so viewed Emerson s career as preacher and lecturer in Apostle of Culture (1982).Mott s study emphasizes the dynamics of specific sermons (mostly previously unpublished) and their role in shaping Emerson s understanding of major issues in his life of the mind.The book anticipates publication of The Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson, to be issued by the University of Missouri Press, 1989-92.", The sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson were central to his emergence as thinker and writer. This is the first extended study of the formative role of these long-neglected documents. Wesley Mott explores major topics and issues in Emerson scholarship: his vocational self-image; the significance and meaning of such quintessentially Emersonian concepts as self-reliance, the over-soul, and compensation; his sense of language his vision of America; his relation to Puritanism. Emerson's aphorisms, taken out of context, have enabled readers of every stamp to enlist him in their cause. Reformers, on the one hand, have claimed him as a prophet of social change, while, on the other hand, Henry Ford and Woody Hayes have found him a champion of conservative American values. These seemingly contradictory elements can be reconciled in large part by an understanding of Emerson's roots in "liberal Christianity" and of his lifelong religious habits of mind. Instead of regarding Emerson's career as a series of distinct stages (as Stephen Whicker did in Freedom and Fate), Mott emphasizes the essential continuity of his growth. David Robinson has so viewed Emerson's career as preacher and lecturer in Apostle of Culture (1982).Mott's study emphasizes the dynamics of specific sermons (mostly previously unpublished) and their role in shaping Emerson's understanding of major issues in his life of the mind. The book anticipates publication of The Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson, to be issued by the University of Missouri Press, 1989-92.
LC Classification NumberBV4208.U6M68 1989
