Description: Examining the long shadow cast by Emerson, and his role and significance as a truly American institution, Buell conveys both the style and substance of Emerson's accomplishment--in his conception of America as the transplantation of Englishness into the new world, and in his prodigious work as writer, religious thinker, and philosopher.
Brief description: Lawrence Buell is Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of American Literature at Harvard University.
Review Quotes: This a splendid book, an important one, and one that will have wide appeal. This will be an indispensable book on Emerson, putting the keys to that complex man and his work into the reader's hand. If you want to know why we are still reading and talking about Emerson, start here.--Robert Richardson, author of Emerson: The Mind on Fire and Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind