The postcolonial and imperial experience in American transcendentalism /
Paryż, Marek.
New York ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Figures of dependence: exploring the postcolonial in Emerson's selected texts -- Beyond the traveler's testimony: English traits and the construction of postcolonial counter-discourse -- Emerson, New England, and the rhetoric of expansion -- Thoreau's imperial fantasy: Walden versus Robinson Crusoe -- The politics of the genre: exploration and ethnography in the Maine woods -- Postcolonial Whitman: the poet and the nation in the 1855 preface to Leaves of Grass -- Passage to (more than) India: the poetics and politics of Whitman's textualization of the Orient.
Transcendentalism (New England)
Postcolonialism in literature.
American literature
Philosophy in literature.