ISBN:
9781501707667
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1501707663
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9780801491528
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0801491525
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 336 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Cornell paperbacks 152
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Buell, Lawrence Literary transcendentalism
DDC:
810/.9/38
Keywords:
American literature History and criticism 19th century
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Transcendentalism (New England)
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American literature, 19th century History and criticism.
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Transcendentalism (New England)
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American literature
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United States Intellectual life 1783-1865
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United States Intellectual life, 1783-1865.
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United States
;
USA
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Literatur
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Transzendentalismus
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USA
;
Transzendentalismus
Abstract:
Broader in scope than any previous literary study of the transcendentalists, this rewarding book analyzes the theories and forms characteristic of a vital group of American writers, as well as the principles and vision underlying transcendentalism. All the movement's major literary figures and forms are considered in detail. Lawrence Buell combines intellectual history and critical explication, giving equal attention to general trends and to particular works and individuals. His chapters on conversation, religious discourse, catalog rhetoric, and literary travelogue treat intensively topics that have been relatively neglected. His analyses of Ellery Channing's poetry and the use of persona in Emerson and Very are also innovative. In the final section, he offers the first systematic account of the autobiographical tradition in transcendentalist writing
Description / Table of Contents:
pt. 1. Background and general principles: The emergence of the transcendentalist aesthetic from American unitarianism -- Transcendentalist literary method: inspiration versus craftmanship -- pt. 2. The living word: From conversation to essay -- From sermon to scripture -- pt. 3. Word and world: nature as a model for literary form: Emerson and the idea of microcosmic form -- Catalogue rhetoric -- Thoreau and the literary excursion -- Thoreau's A week -- Ellery Channing: the major phase of a minor poet -- pt. 4. The first person: Transcendentalist self-examination and autobiographical tradition -- Emerson and Thoreau: soul versus self -- Transcendental egoism in Very and Whitman.
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