The American Newness: Culture and Politics in the Age of Emerson by Irving Howe

The American Newness: Culture and Politics in the Age of Emerson

William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Ci

Irving Howe

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nonfiction essays history literary challenging reflective slow-paced
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History gave Emerson his opportunity and then took it away. Coming to manhood during the 1830s and 1840s, the time of "the newness" when Americans beheld the world with unbounded expectations, Emerson became the spokesman for the self-reliant new ...

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