Above time
Subtitle: Emerson's and Thoreau's temporal revolutions
By: James R. Guthrie.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Criticism and interpretation; Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Criticism and interpretation; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Time in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-257) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. A History of Time: Emerson and Lyell, Agassiz,; title: and Darwin 6; title: 2. "My Camac" and Memnon's Head: Temporal Reform; title: and Timely Memorials in A Week on the Concord and; title: Merrimack Rivers 46; title: 3. Circles and Lines: Emerson's Parade of Days 92; title: 4. The Walking Stick, the Surveyor's Staff, and the Corn; title: in the Night: Thoreau's Alternative Temporal Indices 131; title: 5. Answering the Sphinx: The Evolution of the Emersonian; title: Metamorphosis 173; title: 6. Inches' Wood: Thoreau's Re-membered Cultural; title: 7. Landscape 201; title: Extemporaneous Man, Representative Man 235; title: Works Cited 253; title: Index 259.