Romantic dialogues
Subtitle: Anglo-American continuities, 1776-1862
By: Richard Gravil.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: American literature -- English influences.; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; American literature -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism.; English literature -- Appreciation -- United States.; Romanticism -- English-speaking countries.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Literature and the revolution.
Description: "Richard Gravil explores the relationship between works of the "American Renaissance," in particular the works of the Transcendentalists, and British Romanticism, emphasizing the significance of the American revolution to British writers and the role of Fenimore Cooper in the foundation of American literature. He focuses on the reception of Wordsworth and Coleridge by Emerson and Thoreau, Melville's reading of Coleridge and Whitman's transfiguration of Wordsworth, the response of Hawthorne and Poe to Wordsworth, Coleridge and Keats, and the exceptional intertextuality of Emily Dickinson."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-242) and index.
Table of contents: title: Permissions
pagenum: viii; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: ix; title: Introduction
pagenum: xi; label: Part I
title: Revolution And Independence, 1776-1837; label: Chapter 1
title: The Anglo-American Revolution
pagenum: 3; label: Chapter 2
title: Romantic Americas
pagenum: 23; label: Chapter 3
title: Consanguinity And In(ter)dependence
pagenum: 47; label: Part II
title: Redeeming The Promise Of England, 1823-1862; label: Chapter 4
title: James Fenimore Cooper And The Specter Of Edmund Burke
pagenum: 69; label: Chapter 5
title: Nature And Walden: Visionary Gleams
pagenum: 91; label: Chapter 6
title: Romancing Romanticism: Hawthorne And Poe
pagenum: 117; label: Chapter 7
title: The Whale And The Albatross: Melville's Active Universe
pagenum: 139; label: Chapter 8
title: Discharged Soldiers And Runaway Slaves
pagenum: 163; label: Chapter 9
title: Emily Dickinson's Imaginary Conversations
pagenum: 187; title: Excursus Note: The War Of 1820; Or, Colonel Gardner's Campaign
pagenum: 209; title: Notes
pagenum: 213; title: Index
pagenum: 243