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Author Harvey, Samantha, 1972- author.

Title Transatlantic transcendentalism : Coleridge, Emerson, and nature / Samantha C. Harvey
Published Edinburgh [Scotland] : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 218 pages) : illustrations
Series Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literature
Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literature
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Transatlantic Transcendentalism -- 2. Coleridge and Boston Transcendentalism -- 3. Nature: Philosophy and the "Riddle of the World" -- 4. Landing Place: "Distinguishing without Dividing" and Coleridge's Method -- 5. Humanity: "Art is the Mediatress, The Reconciliator of Man and Nature" -- 6. Spirit: "An Influx of the Divine Mind" -- 7. Emerson's Nature: Coleridge's Method and the Romantic Triad -- 8. Coleridge and Vermont Transcendentalism
Summary The first book devoted to Coleridge's influence on Emerson and the development of American Transcendentalism. As Samantha C. Harvey demonstrates, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's thought galvanized Emerson at a pivotal moment in his intellectual development in the years 1826-1836, giving him new ways to harmonize the Romantic triad of nature, spirit, and humanity. Emerson did not think about Coleridge: he thought with Coleridge, resulting in a unique case of assimilative influence. In addition to examining his specific literary, philosophical, and theological influences on Emerson, this book reveals Coleridge's centrality for Boston Transcendentalism and Vermont Transcendentalism, a movement which profoundly affected the development of modern higher education, the national press, and the emergence of Pragmatism. Key Features. Illuminates how the emerging field of transatlantic studies has opened new circulatory spaces to reconsider the relationship between Coleridge and Emerson Asserts Coleridge as the single most important influence on Emerson's early essays Examines the centrality of nature in the dynamic context of Transatlantic Romanticism Highlights the essential but overlooked legacy of Coleridge's dynamic principles of method for Emerson and for Boston and Vermont Transcendentalism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-209) and index
Notes English
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Subject Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834
SUBJECT Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 fast
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 fast
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1772-1834 gnd
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882 gnd
Subject Transcendentalism.
transcendentalism.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Transcendentalism
Rezeption
Transzendentalismus
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780748681372
074868137X
1299735851
9781299735859
9780748681365
0748681361
0748693882
9780748693887
Other Titles Coleridge, Emerson, and nature