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Emerson and Other Minds: Idealism and the Moral Self, Volume One; Emerson and Other Minds: Idealism and the Lonely Subject, Volume Two

Clark Davis
Publisher: Journals Gateway
The New England Quarterly (2022) 95 (2): 284–287.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_r_00944
Published: 01 June 2022
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Emerson's Telescope: Jones Very and Romantic Individualism

Clark Davis
Publisher: Journals Gateway
The New England Quarterly (2018) 91 (3): 483–507.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00687
Published: 01 August 2018
Abstract
Ralph Waldo Emerson described the poet Jones Very as a “telescope,” the kind of intensely focused idealist who challenges the commitments of those he encounters. Very can be compared to Herman Melville's Bartleby as a test case that reveals the limits of nineteenth-century individualism and late romanticism.
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