Emerson's transatlantic romanticism
By: David Greenham
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780230284173
Subjects: Literature; Knowledge; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Influence; Criticism and interpretation; Romanticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Description: "This book provides an original account of Emerson's creative debts to the British and European Romantics, including Coleridge and Carlyle, firmly locating them in his New England context. Moreover this book analyses and explains the way that his thought shapes his unique prose style in which idea and word become united in an epistemology of form"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: PrefaceAbbreviationsThe Book of NatureThe New MythusThe Divine MindThe Alembic of AnalogyThe Transcendental SelfThe One and the ManyNotesBibliographyIndex.