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The Public Intellectualism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and W.E.B. Du Bois

Part of the Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230105652

ISBN: 978-1-349-38155-5

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Nov 5, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction The Province of Public Intellectualism: Emerson, Du Bois, Emotion, and Reform Writing

Schneider, Ryan

Pages: 1 –21

[Before I explain what this book is about, I am going to list some of the similarities—a few bordering on the uncanny—that mark the personal and professional lives of Ralph Waldo Emerson and W.E.B. Du Bois: similarities all the more striking given the differences in their racial subject positions...
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Chapter 2Race: You’ll Know It When You Feel It

Schneider, Ryan

Pages: 23 –48

[Go looking for references to race in Emerson’s work and you will find them embedded in a geography that is, by turns, regional, national, and global. New Englanders are representative of the A merican race; t he greatest qua lit ies of the A merican race are properly understood as products of...
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Chapter 3Double Consciousness: It’s More Than What You Think

Schneider, Ryan

Pages: 49 –69

[Emerson’s “Address on the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies” and Du Bois’s “The Conservation of Races” amplify and limn the emotional discourse and affective-cognitive narratives of experience that are such crucial yet under-valued dimensions of their authors’ writings on...
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Chapter 4Losing Your Head: Why Du Bois and Emerson (Mostly) Like John Brown

Schneider, Ryan

Pages: 71 –91

[When U. S. Army and Gulf Warveteran Timothy James McVeigh chose April 19 to carry out his deadly bombing attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Okalahoma City in 1995, he did so in deliberate protest of the FBI raid on the Branch Davidian Compound in Waco, Texas, in 1993 and the...
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Chapter 5Intimate Attachments: Fathers, Sons, and Public Intellectuals

Schneider, Ryan

Pages: 93 –119

[This chapter brings together narratives Du Bois and Emerson composed in response to the deaths of their sons: Du Bois in the essay “Of the Passing of the First-Born” from The Soulsof Black Folk and Emerson in letters, journal entries, and his 1844 essay “Experience.” These...
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Chapter 6Conclusion Theory of Mind and the Color Line

Schneider, Ryan

Pages: 121 –142

[I noted in the Introduction that most ToM literary criticism concerns itself with fictional narratives, especially novels, since these texts tend to offer multiple and diverse opportunities to read characters’ states of mind: to predict their motivations and desires and to winnow from the many...

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