Joel Porte offers a timely reassessment of nineteenth-century literature, focusing on the general question of the American Romantic ego.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Writing, reading, Romanticism 1. 'Where...Is this singular career to terminate?': Bewildered pilgrims in early American fiction 2. 'Where there is no vision, the people perish...': Prophets and Pariahs in the Forest of the New World 3. Poe: Romantic centre, critical margin 4. Emerson: experiments in self-creation 5. Hawthorne: 'The obscurest man of letters in America' 6. Thoreau's self-perpetuating artefacts 7. Melville: Romantic cock-and-bull or, the great art of telling the truth 8. Douglass and Stowe: scriptures of the redeemed self 9. Whitman: 'Take me as I am or not at all...' Interchapter: Walt and Emily 10. Dickinson's 'Celestial vail': snowbound in self-consciousness Notes Index.
Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Writing, reading, Romanticism 1. 'Where...Is this singular career to terminate?': Bewildered pilgrims in early American fiction 2. 'Where there is no vision, the people perish...': Prophets and Pariahs in the Forest of the New World 3. Poe: Romantic centre, critical margin 4. Emerson: experiments in self-creation 5. Hawthorne: 'The obscurest man of letters in America' 6. Thoreau's self-perpetuating artefacts 7. Melville: Romantic cock-and-bull or, the great art of telling the truth 8. Douglass and Stowe: scriptures of the redeemed self 9. Whitman: 'Take me as I am or not at all...' Interchapter: Walt and Emily 10. Dickinson's 'Celestial vail': snowbound in self-consciousness Notes Index.
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