Transcendence : seekers and seers in the age of Thoreau /
Specq, Francois,1965-
Higganum, Conn. : Higganum Hill Books,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-222) and index.
Frederic Church's America -- Thoreau's "Chesuncook" -- Thoreau's flowering of facts and the truth of experience -- Dwelling and labyrinth in Thoreau's journal -- "Losing sight of oneself in what one sees": nature writing and Thoreau's journal -- Emerson's literary ethics -- Emerson's rhetoric of empowerment -- "Truth comes in with darkness": transparence and opacity in "The piazza" -- Prophecy and the grotesque in "The encantadas" -- Melville's dream -- Quest for the sublime and rhetoric of empire in Bradford's Arctic regions.
American literature
Transcendentalism (New England)
Spirituality in literature.
Spirituality in art.
Nature in literature.
Nature in art.
Nature