Title: Emerson's transatlantic romanticism
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"--
Subjects: Literature, Knowledge, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Influence, Criticism and interpretation, Romanticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Emerson, ralph waldo, 1803-1882, American literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Art, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, English, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
People: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)