Emerson, romanticism, and intuitive reason
Subtitle: the transatlantic "light of all our day"
By: Patrick J. Keane.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press; University of Missouri
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 555
ISBN-13: 9780826216021
Subjects: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Criticism and interpretation; Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Knowledge -- Literature; American literature -- English influences; American literature -- German influences; Transcendentalism (New England); Romanticism -- United States; Intuition in literature; Reason in literature
Description: "Comparative study in transatlantic Romanticism that traces the links between German idealism, British Romanticism (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Carlyle), and American Transcendentalism. Focuses on Emerson's development and use of the concept of intuitive Reason, which became the intellectual and emotional foundation of American Transcendentalism"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 521-541) and index.