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02542aam a2200301Ii 4500 001 1A1E2CC6550D11E9884C074097128E48 003 SILO 005 20190402010148 008 180907s2019 nyu b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1640140239 020 $a 9781640140233 035 $a (OCoLC)1051764043 040 $a ERASA $b eng $e rda $c ERASA $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d YDXIT $d YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d TFW $d SILO 050 4 $a PS1638 M44 2019 100 1 $a Meehan, Sean Ross, $d 1969- $e author. 245 12 $a A liberal education in late Emerson : $b readings in the rhetoric of mind / $c Sean Ross Meehan. 264 1 $a Rochester, New York : $b Camden House, $c 2019. 300 $a xii, 176 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Mind and American Literature 520 8 $a Recent scholarship has inspired growing interest in the later work of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) and a recognition that the conventional view of an aging Emerson, distant from public matters and limited by declining mental powers, needs rethinking. Sean Meehan's book reclaims three important but critically neglected aspects of the late Emerson's "mind": first, his engagement with rhetoric, conceived as the organizing power of mind and, unconventionally, characterized by the trope "metonymy"; second, his public engagement with the ideals of liberal education and debates in higher education reform early in the period (1860-1910) that saw the emergence of the modern university; and third, his intellectual relation to significant figures from this age of educational transformation: Walt Whitman, William James, Harvard president Charles W. Eliot, and W.E.B. Du Bois, Harvard's first African American PhD. Meehan argues that the late Emerson educates through the "rhetorical liberal arts," and he thereby rethinks Emerson's influence as rhetorical lessons in the traditional pedagogy and classical curriculum of the liberal arts college. Emerson's rhetoric of mind informs and complicates these lessons since the classical ideal of a general education in the common bonds of knowledge counters the emerging American university and its specialization of thought within isolated departments. 600 10 $a Emerson, Ralph Waldo, $d 1803-1882 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a Emerson, Ralph Waldo, $d 1803-1882. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00028085 650 0 $a Education, Humanistic. 830 0 $a Mind and American literature. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200204023703.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1A1E2CC6550D11E9884C074097128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search