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"His essays are like Thoreau's sauntering, invitations to follow an acute and learned scholar to places you had not visited with such a guide. What this collection 'adds up' to, then, is forty-five years worth of rumination on two of this country's finest minds by someone eminently suited to investigate them in all their varied complexity."—Philip F. Gura, William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

"Porte's concentration on Emerson as writer is not so common an approach as it may seem; balanced against the way in which Emerson is conventionally considered—as philosopher, as aphorist, as cultural icon—Porte's keen attention to the quality of the prose itself and the artfulness of an essay's organization yields rewarding and highly readable results."—Larzer Ziff, Johns Hopkins University

Consciousness and Culture

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      Publisher: Yale University Press
      Publication Date: 11/07/2004
      ISBN13: 9780300104462, 978-0300104462
      ISBN10: 0300104464
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      Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

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      Book Synopsis


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      "His essays are like Thoreau's sauntering, invitations to follow an acute and learned scholar to places you had not visited with such a guide. What this collection 'adds up' to, then, is forty-five years worth of rumination on two of this country's finest minds by someone eminently suited to investigate them in all their varied complexity."—Philip F. Gura, William S. Newman Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

      "Porte's concentration on Emerson as writer is not so common an approach as it may seem; balanced against the way in which Emerson is conventionally considered—as philosopher, as aphorist, as cultural icon—Porte's keen attention to the quality of the prose itself and the artfulness of an essay's organization yields rewarding and highly readable results."—Larzer Ziff, Johns Hopkins University

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