Always as a Means, Never as an End”
Orestes Brownson's “Transcendentalist” Criticism and the Uses of the Literary
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16308692 |
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| Authors | Tim Sommer (0000-0002-0039-3962, Tim Sommer is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Heidelberg. His research focuses on nineteenth-century transatlantic literary relations and Anglo-American constructions of cultural authority, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 442-472 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The New England Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/tneq_a_00627 |
| OpenAlex | W2750951972 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
This essay examines how Orestes Brownson used literary criticism as a medium to distance himself from the Transcendentalist movement. It argues that Brownson's qualified rejection of Transcendentalism played a crucial role in the formation of his professional identity as a literary critic and public intellectual in the mid-nineteenth-century literary sphere
Aesthetics · Art · Criticism · Identity (music · Literary criticism · Literature · Reflexive pronoun · Giambattista Vico and Joyce · Historical and Literary Studies · Philosophy · Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought
| Highly cited | No |
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