| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 217 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Copley and Edwards : self, consciousness, and thing -- Emerson and Lane : luminist time and the transcendental aboriginal self -- Thoreau and Indian selfhood : circles, silence, and democratic land -- Whitman and Church : transcendent optimism and the democratic self -- Homer and James : the pragmatic self made concrete -- Dickinson and Ryder : immortality, eternity, and the reclusive self -- Pollock and Olson : time, space, and the activated bodily self |
| Summary |
Through reading paintings and texts from the same period against each other, the author shows how the meaning of self has influenced and changed through American identity and culture from the late 18th to the 20th century |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
American literature -- History and criticism.
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Art and literature -- United States -- History
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Painting, American.
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Self-perception in literature.
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Self-perception in art.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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American literature
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Art and literature
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Painting, American
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Self-perception in art
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Self-perception in literature
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Selbstbild Motiv
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Kunst
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Literatur -- USA -- Kunst.
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Kunst -- Literatur -- USA.
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780195345650 |
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0195345657 |
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9780195305906 |
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0195305906 |
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1281163155 |
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9781281163158 |
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9781429468930 |
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1429468939 |
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9786611163150 |
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6611163158 |
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