The Emerson Effect: Individualism and Submission in America by Christopher Newfield, Professor Christopher Newfield
The Emerson Effect: Individualism and Submission in America

Christopher Newfield, Professor Christopher Newfield

The Emerson Effect: Individualism and Submission in America

Christopher Newfield, Professor Christopher Newfield

288 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

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What is the political sensibility of America's middle class? Where did it come from? What kind of life does it hope for? Newfield finds a major source in the writing of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and offers a radically revisionist account of his powerfu...

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