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Our first globalist? A reinterpretation of Ralph Waldo Emerson's illuminating essays.(BOOKS)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20030713
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Byline: Rex Roberts, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Books belong to the eyes that see them, declared Ralph Waldo Emerson, and so it is with Lawrence Buell's interpretation of the work of the man he calls Amer

ica's first public intellectual. For a century, Emerson was neatly classified as the author of the doctrines of self-reliance and pragmatism, one of the giants of American literature. For Mr. Buell and likeminded revisionists, however, Emerson is American only in caricature (as they put it provocatively), better understood as a transnationalist than ...

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