The postcolonial and imperial experience in American transcendentalism
By: Marek Paryż
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780230338746
Subjects: Transcendentalism (New England); Postcolonialism in literature; American literature; Philosophy in literature; History and criticism
Description: "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."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-235)and index.
Table of contents: title: Figures of dependence: exploring the postcolonial in Emerson's selected texts; title: Beyond the traveler's testimony: English traits and the construction of postcolonial counter-discourse; title: Emerson, New England, and the rhetoric of expansion; title: Thoreau's imperial fantasy: Walden versus Robinson Crusoe; title: The politics of the genre: exploration and ethnography in the Maine woods; title: Postcolonial Whitman: the poet and the nation in the 1855 preface to Leaves of Grass; title: Passage to (more than) India: the poetics and politics of Whitman's textualization of the Orient.