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  • 3 - Highest Belief

  • Kenneth S. Sacks, Brown University, Rhode Island
  • Book:
    Emerson's Civil Wars
    Published online:
    25 October 2024
    Print publication:
    14 November 2024, pp 81-96

  • Summary

    What Emerson was doing instead: he was busy building his career as a public intellectual and growing increasingly comfortable in Boston society (“his set,” as he called it). This chapter looks at how deftly he monetized his lyceum career and how he avoided controversial subjects in the lyceum for fear of alienating his audience. Also examined is his participation in various social clubs, the trend being increasingly toward high status over interesting, even abolitionist, membership. One of the nineteenth century’s greatest letter writers, he avoided discussing slavery within his epistolary habit. All his attention was on social connections and popular success.