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Emersonian anti-mentoring: From Thoreau to Dickinson and beyond (in honor of James McIntosh)

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From: Michigan Quarterly Review
Date: 20020701
Author:Buell, Lawrence

This essay draws on a book-in-progress on Ralph Waldo Emerson. It comes from the chapter I thought would be easiest but turns out to be hardest, partly because it's the most personal. It reflects back and forth between the work of scholarship and the work of teaching, particularly mentorship, and back and forth as well between the peculiar kind of mentorship represented by Emerson and the kind that matters to me. But precisely those things that have given me trouble also made the subject right for such an occasion as this, all the more so because I want to triangulate Emerson with the two ...

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