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1 online resource (viii, 336 pages) |
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Background and general principles: The emergence of the transcendentalist aesthetic from American unitarianism -- Transcendentalist literary method: inspiration versus craftmanship -- pt. 2. The living word: From conversation to essay -- From sermon to scripture -- pt. 3. Word and world: nature as a model for literary form: Emerson and the idea of microcosmic form -- Catalogue rhetoric -- Thoreau and the literary excursion -- Thoreau's A week -- Ellery Channing: the major phase of a minor poet -- pt. 4. The first person: Transcendentalist self-examination and autobiographical tradition -- Emerson and Thoreau: soul versus self -- Transcendental egoism in Very and Whitman. |
| Summary |
Broader in scope than any previous literary study of the transcendentalists, this rewarding book analyzes the theories and forms characteristic of a vital group of American writers, as well as the principles and vision underlying transcendentalism. All the movement's major literary figures and forms are considered in detail. Lawrence Buell combines intellectual history and critical explication, giving equal attention to general trends and to particular works and individuals. His chapters on conversation, religious discourse, catalog rhetoric, and literary travelogue treat intensively topics that have been relatively neglected. His analyses of Ellery Channing's poetry and the use of persona in Emerson and Very are also innovative. In the final section, he offers the first systematic account of the autobiographical tradition in transcendentalist writing. |
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865.
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Transcendentalism (New England)
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Littérature américaine -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
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Transcendantalisme (Philosophie américaine)
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États-Unis -- Vie intellectuelle -- 1783-1865.
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American literature
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Intellectual life
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Transcendentalism (New England)
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
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Literatura Norte Americana (Historia E Critica)
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1783-1899
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| Indexed Term |
English literature American writers Transcendentalism, 1820-1870 Critical studies |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Buell, Lawrence. Literary transcendentalism; style and vision in the American Renaissance. Ithaca, Cornell University Press [1973] (DLC) 73008409 (OCoLC)749637 |
| ISBN |
9781501707667 (electronic bk.) |
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1501707663 (electronic bk.) |
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9780801491528 |
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0801491525 |
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0801407877 |
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9780801407871 |
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AU@ 000059303850 |
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