Representative Men

Seven Lectures

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Andrew Delbanco (Introduction by)

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Paperback | 1 February 1996 | Edition Number 1

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"At first reading, "Representative Men" seems the most alien of Emerson's books. First published in 1850 (having taken form over the five preceding years as a series of lectures intended as 'winter evening entertainments'), it was inspired by the romantic belief that there exists a 'general mind' that expresses itself with special intensity through certain individual lives. It was an appreciation of genius as a quality distributed to the few for the benefit of the many. When, according to Longfellow, Emerson began to speak on these themes in Boston in 1845, the Odeon theater was jammed with 'old men and young, bald heads and flowing transcendental locks, matrons and maidens, misanthropists and lovers.' The crowds were rapt and grateful, as were their counterparts two years later in England where the lecture series continued...

This edition of "Representative Men" is reproduced from the fourth volume of "The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson," text established by Douglas Emory Wilson.

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Non-Fiction History Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History Philosophy History of Western Philosophy Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Poetry & Poets General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1800 to 1900 Non-Fiction Prose

Historical Introduction Statement of Editorial Principles Textual
Introduction Representative men: seven lectures
Uses of Great Men
Plato, or the Philosopher, Plato: New Readings
Swedenborg, or the Mystic
Montaigne, or the Skeptic
Shakspeare, or the Poet
Napoleon, or the Man of the World
Goethe, or the Writer Notes Textual Apparatus
The Manuscript
The 1850 Compositors
Revisions in the Manuscript
Parallel Passages
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