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Alienating Emerson

其他書名	A Postnational Reconsideration of Emerson and Marx's Early Works
出版	University of Vermont, 2004
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=n8B4NwAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This thesis provides a postnational reading of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Karl Marx's early writings on "alienation." Its premise is the claim made in the first chapter of Lawrence Buell's Emerson that Emerson and Marx have similar criticism of the negative effects of the division of labor, but a divergent sense of the "path to social betterment." This thesis explores how Buell's conception of the relationship between Emerson and Marx epitomizes the attempts of Americanist scholars to reconcile the traditions of American literary history with recent postnational perspectives. In addition, it questions if Buell's postnational reading of Emerson is able to overcome the delimiting nationalist scholarship that he, himself, criticizes. Using Buell's directive to reanalyze Emerson's original work outside of "oversimplified" nationalist narratives, this thesis seeks to both reconsider and extend Buell's postnational interpretation of Emerson's thought. The first chapter, entitled "You Can't Get There From Here," explores the twentieth-century nationalist Emersonian scholarship that informs Buell's comparison of Emerson and Marx. The second chapter, "Like Marx, but in a Wholly Different Way?," reexamines Buell's premise that Emerson and Marx share a similar critique of the negative effects of the division of labor, but in a "different way."