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| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3 | The History Cooperative
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Book Review


Emerson. By Lawrence Buell. (Cambridge: Belknap, 2004. xiv, 416 pp. Paper, $16.95, ISBN 0-674-01627-0.)
Since the publication of his Literary Transcendentalism in 1973, Lawrence Buell has been an important, prolific, and eloquent interpreter of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his circle. Now more than thirty years and several influential books beyond that auspicious beginning, Buell gives us his Emerson both to mark the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of his subject and to cap at least a portion of Buell's impressive career. "It reflects," Buell tells us, "an adult lifetime of meditation and teaching" (p. 6). With such a background and buildup, one expects a great deal from such a book, and this one for the most part does not disappoint. . . .
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