Emerson's Ghosts

Randall Fuller is Associate Professor of English at Drury University. He is the author of From Battlefields Rising and the coeditor of The Business of Reflection: Hawthorne in His Notebooks.

• Table of Contents ; Preface ; Chapter 1. The Haunting of American Literature ; Chapter 2. Emerson in the Gilded Age ; Chapter 3. How to Dismantle American Culture: Van Wyck Brooks and Oppositional Criticism ; Chapter 4. F. O. Matthiessen and the Tragedy of the American Scholar ; Chapter 5. Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness ; Chapter 6. Sacvan Bercovitch as "American" Scholar ; Chapter 7. Emerson's Ghosts ; End Notes ; Bibliography

Emerson's Ghosts uses the beacon of America's exemplary intellectual to cast sharp new light on the tragic careers of later American scholars. Its case studies embrace both public intellectuals and professors who helped to define what we do when we do American Studies. Deeply researched, eloquently written, and without cant, this book establishes Randall Fuller as someone to hear more from.