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Losing Grip: Emerson, Leroux and the Work of Identity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2005

JAMES McCLELLAND
Affiliation:
Merton College, Oxford University.

Extract

If Minerva offered me an option, I would say give me continuity. I am tired of scraps. I do not wish to be a literary or intellectual chiffonier. Away with this Jew's rag-bag of ends and tufts of brocade, velvet and cloth-of-gold; let me spin some yards or miles of helpful twine, a clew to lead to one kingly truth, a cord to bind wholesome and belonging facts.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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