Abstract
This paper seelcs to highlight the deep continuity between the rhetoric of Emerson’s Essays to that of his political involvement in the 1850s, by analyzing a passage from his 1851 ‘‘Address on the Fugitive Slave Law”. True to the transcendentalist ethic and its central notions of “self-reliance” and “higher law”, which he endows with a forceful political import, Emerson re-channelled the power of the Puritan jeremiad to turn his speech into a tool of individual liberation and political re-foundation.
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