TY - BOOK AU - Carafiol Peter TI - The American Ideal / Literary History as a Worldly Activity SN - 195067657 PY - 1991/// PB - Oxford University Press N1 - Introduction, The Problem of American Literary Scholarship, Reading the Tradition: The Rhetoric of Transcendentalist Scholarship, Time and Textuality, Between Metaphor and Metaphysics: Reading Emerson as ''Onward Thinking'', Writing in/ as History: Thoreau's Week, American Literary Scholarship for the Twentieth Century, Notes, Index N2 - Introduction, The Problem of American Literary Scholarship, Reading the Tradition: The Rhetoric of Transcendentalist Scholarship, Time and Textuality, Between Metaphor and Metaphysics: Reading Emerson as ''Onward Thinking'', Writing in/ as History: Thoreau's Week, American Literary Scholarship for the Twentieth Century, Notes, Index ER -