Title: The postcolonial and imperial experience in American transcendentalism
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.
Subjects: Transcendentalism (New England), Postcolonialism in literature, American literature, Philosophy in literature, History and criticism, American literature, history and criticism, 19th century, LITERARY CRITICISM, American, General, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literature
Time periods: 19th century