@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt7ztz7t.9,
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7ztz7t.9},
 abstract = {Pioneers are normally the first to be criticized, their achievements being taken for granted while their shortcomings are held against them. Emerson had made an intellectual clearing, but the next generation wanted more: hard facts and the knowledge about the laws, which would make the space which Emerson had created inhabitable. In the end, of course, even a stubborn mind like Henry Adams’s would succumb to the rule of paradox and contradiction, would in fact cultivate it and turn the essence of paradox, namely self-reference, into the ultimate form of artistic expression. Knowing this, we immediately realize that the criticism},
 bookauthor = {OLAF HANSEN},
 booktitle = {Aesthetic Individualism and Practical Intellect: American Allegory in Emerson, Thoreau, Adams, and James},
 pages = {141--174},
 publisher = {Princeton University Press},
 title = {Henry Adams},
 year = {1990}
}