Wesley T Mott

Biographic Data

ID1072204
NAMEWesley T Mott
GIVEN NAMESWesley T
FAMILY NAMEMott
SIGNATUREMOTT W T
AFFILIATIONSWorcester Polytechnic Institute
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
H-INDEX0

  • Mr. Emerson's Revolution

    Open AccessPhyllis Cole, Len Gougeon et al.BOOKMr. Emerson's Revolution2015References: 4

    The Mr. Emerson to which this volume pays tribute is a figure so ensconced in America's intellectual framework that we sometimes forget how iconoclastic he actually was.In his essays, Emerson fought intolerance, extolled imagination over doctrine, indicted fundamentalism, and demystified American exceptionalism.Simply put, Emerson was a Disturber of the Peace -an anti-honorific to which history has attached a gold star.When closely examined along…

  • Transcendental Wordplay

    Wesley T MottARTICLEAmerican Literature2001

    Book Review| September 01 2001 Transcendental Wordplay: America's Romantic Punsters and the Search for the Language of Nature By Michael West. Athens: Ohio Univ. Press. 2000. xxiv, 518 pp. $59.95. Wesley T. Mott Wesley T. Mott Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 634–635. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-73-3-634 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Wesle…

  • The Eloquence of Father Taylor

    Wesley T MottARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1997

  • Emerson and the Worcester Lyceum, 1855-1857

    Kent Ljungquist, Kent P Ljungquist et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1992

  • Transformations

    Wesley T Mott, Kathleen KilgoreARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1992

  • Virtue's Hero

    Wesley T Mott, Len GougeonARTICLEJournal of American History1992

    Journal Article Virtue's Hero: Emerson, Antislavery, and Reform. By Len Gougeon. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990. xvi + 408 pp. $45.00.) Get access Wesley T. Mott Wesley T. Mott Worcester Polytechnic Institute Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 2, September 1992, Pages 662–663, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080101 Published: 01 September 1992

  • The Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Joseph G Kronick, Albert J Von Frank et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1990

  • American Poetics of History

    Open AccessWesley T Mott, Joseph G KronickARTICLESouth Central Review1987

  • Emerson and Antinomianism

    Wesley T MottARTICLEAmerican Literature1978

    EVER SINCE Andrews Norton characterized Transcendentalism as latest form of infidelity, Ralph Waldo Emerson's place in American thought has been a matter of dispute. The prevailing opinion, usually supported by selective reading of the bold, exuberant addresses and essays of the I830's and I840's, is that Emerson's intensely mystical piety and his antiauthoritarianism are rooted in a native Antinomian tradition.! But some scholars posit a very di…

  • The Rhetoric of Martin Luther King, Jr

    Wesley T MottARTICLEPhylon (19601975

    T OWARD THE END of his life, Martin Luther King, Jr., was beset by intense criticism of his program of nonviolent direct action from both reactionary whites and newly vocal radical blacks. The reactionary complaint from well-meaning Negroes and whites had long been familiar to King: marches and sit-ins were counter-productive because they provoked violence; truly Christian Negroes would tolerate injustice because whites would ultimately develop s…