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Emerson:. American Jacob. Jacob becomes Israel:. He who strove with God—and triumphed. Jacob the Wrestler. Genesis 32:24-29. Gustave Doré, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, 1855. Gustave Moreau, “Jacob and the Angel,” c. 1878. Walter O. Mayo (1878-1970), Jacob and the Angel.

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Emerson:

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  1. Emerson: American Jacob

  2. Jacob becomes Israel: He who strove with God—and triumphed.

  3. Jacob the Wrestler Genesis 32:24-29

  4. Gustave Doré, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, 1855

  5. Gustave Moreau, “Jacob and the Angel,” c. 1878

  6. Walter O. Mayo (1878-1970), Jacob and the Angel

  7. N. C. Wyeth, the Battle of Glen Falls

  8. Gauguin, The Vision after the Sermon, 1888

  9. Thomas Blackshear, “Watchers in the Night”

  10. Thomas Blackshear, “Forgiven” triumphthroughsurrender

  11. R. W. Emerson: American Jacob 1803-1882

  12. Father and Son: William and R. W. Emerson

  13. Born into a Calling New England Divines—and RWE

  14. Divinity Hall, Harvard (1826) the call resisted

  15. Emerson as “Transparent Eyeball”: a caricature by Christopher Pearce Cranch See Norton, p. 488

  16. Nature (1836): • The breakout book.... • The foregoing generation beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?

  17. The Emerson Circle:Some Key Figures • Emerson’s Home in Concord, MA

  18. Henry D. Thoreau, 1817-1862 author of “Civil Disobedience” and Walden

  19. “I saw the tree, but I did not realize it.” —Elizabeth Peabody (attr.), 1804-1894

  20. Sarah Margaret Fuller,1810-1850

  21. Jones Very, 1813-1880

  22. Radical Politics, Radical Religion Founding New Institutions on Old Books

  23. The Invented Republic

  24. Liberty Tree Flags

  25. A contemporary maypole....

  26. The Second Great Awakening: American Religion as Folk Poetry

  27. The Cane Ridge Revival, 1801

  28. Thomas Blackshear, “Watchers in the Night”

  29. Thomas Blackshear, “Forgiven” triumphthroughsurrender

  30. The InventedKingdom • the Bible as blueprint....

  31. That was then.... • the Great Bible of 1539....

  32. That was then.... • and the Authorised or King James version, 1611....

  33. This is now! • The First Bible of the New Republic • The severed link to the church

  34. Spirit-led religion

  35. Joseph Smith: A Back-Country Emerson?

  36. Charlatans(from Emerson’s Notebook, c. 1854) • P. T. Barnum • Louis Napoleon • Frederick Douglass • Joe Smith

  37. Emerson the Supplanter Christians, Stoics, & Fatalists

  38. Cosmopolitanism • Overcoming by Relativizing • Liberation through comparison

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