Mark Sandy

Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism (eBook, ePUB)

Aesthetics, Subjectivity and the Environment

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A critical re-evaluation of the imaginative transformations of Romanticism by major American writersThis book provides innovative readings of literary works of British Romanticism and its influence on twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literary culture and thought. It traverses the traditional critical boundaries of prose and poetry in American and Romantic and post-Romantic writing. Analysing significant works by nineteenth-century writers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Emily Dickinson, as well as the contemporary writings of William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison and Wallace Stevens, the book reasserts the significance of second-generation Romantic writers for American literary culture. Sandy reassesses our understanding of Romantic inheritance and influence on post-Romantic aesthetics, subjectivity and the natural world in the American imagination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474421508
• Artikelnr.: 72429660

Autorenporträt

Mark Sandy is Professor of English Literature at Durham University. His research interests are Romantic and nineteenth-century poetics and twentieth-century American Literature. His publications include Poetics of Self and Form in Keats and Shelley (Ashgate 2005; Routledge, 2019) and Romanticism, Memory, and Mourning (Ashgate, 2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
I. Imagining Nature
1. Introduction: Reflections on Transatlantic Exchanges, Subjectivity and
Nature
2. Romantic Influence and Nature Reconsidered: Ralph Waldo Emerson and
Henry David Thoreau
II. Romantic Transactions: Subjects in Nature
3. Dissolving Subjectivities: Imagined Selves in F. Scott Fitzgerald and
John Keats
4. Ghostly Selves, Light and Nature in William Faulkner: Wordsworthian
Shadows and Byronic Shades
III. Romantic Transformations: Fictional Selves and Nature
5. Fictions of the Self and Nature: Reading Romanticism in Saul Bellow
6. Re-Imagined Pastoral Poetics: Narrative Structures and the Environment
in Toni Morrison and William Wordsworth
Coda: Nature without Self: Beauty, Death and Subjectivity in the Poetics of
Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens
Bibliography
Index