The Postcolonial and Imperial Experience in American Transcendentalism [electronic resource] /
Paryz, M.author.
Analyses literary representations of the American experience in selected works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. Reveals the ambivalence that underlay the cultural and political development of the United States as a former colony.
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Mapping the Field; Part I Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Double Figuration; 1 Figures of Dependence: Exploring the Postcolonial in Emerson's Selected Texts; 2 Beyond the Traveler's Testimony: English Traits and the Construction of Postcolonial Counter- Discourse; 3 Emerson, New England, and the Rhetoric of Expansion; Part II Henry David Thoreau: The Imperial Imaginary; 4 Thoreau's Imperial Fantasy: Walden versus Robinson Crusoe; 5 The Politics of the Genre: Exploration and Ethnography in The Maine Woods
Part III Walt Whitman: The National Trajectory6 Postcolonial Whitman: The Poet and the Nation in the 1855 Preface to Leaves of Grass; 7 Passage to (More Than) India: The Poetics and Politics of Whitman's Textualization of the Orient; Conclusion: Representative Men; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Analyses literary representations of the American experience in selected works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. Reveals the ambivalence that underlay the cultural and political development of the United States as a former colony.
Literature   .
America-Literatures.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
Ethnology.
Literature-Philosophy.
Fiction.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
North American Literature.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Cultural Anthropology.
Literary Theory.
Fiction.