Review

"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."--Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh

"This work will surely hold an important place in the future of Emerson studies as powerful encouragement to continue approaching Emerson and his work from new critical perspectives. Emerson's Ghosts strongly testifies to Emerson's unfading importance in the study of America and its culture."--Emerson Society Papers

"Randall Fuller presents a lucid, persuasive, and concise analysis of Emerson's political and literary maturation and his recognition of the creative, and potentially liberating, tensions between thought and action, language and reality, aesthetics and history. . . This is an important and exciting accomplishment."--Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside

About the Author

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.