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Author Keane, Patrick J

Title Emerson, romanticism, and intuitive reason : the transatlantic "light of all our day" / Patrick J. Keane
Published Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 555 pages)
Contents Introduction: the critics and the participants -- Intuitive reason: the light of all our day -- Emerson's discipleship: resistance -- Emerson's discipleship: shedding benignant influence -- Powers and pulsations: quotation and originality -- Intuition and tuition: reading nature and the use and abuse of books -- Passivity and activity -- Solitude and society: self-reliance and communal responsibility -- Divinity within: the godlike self and the divinity school address -- Emerson among the Orphic poets -- Emersonian "optimism" and "the stream of tendency" -- Wordsworthian hope: the deaths of Ellen and Edward -- Mourning becomes morning: the death of Charles -- Wordsworth's ode, Waldo, and "Threnody."
Summary "Comparative study in transatlantic Romanticism that traces the links between German idealism, British Romanticism (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Carlyle), and American Transcendentalism. Focuses on Emerson's development and use of the concept of intuitive Reason, which became the intellectual and emotional foundation of American Transcendentalism"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-541) and index
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Subject Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Criticism and interpretation
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Knowledge -- Literature
SUBJECT Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 fast
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. swd
Subject American literature -- English influences.
American literature -- German influences
Transcendentalism (New England)
Romanticism -- United States
Intuition in literature.
Reason in literature.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
American literature -- English influences
American literature -- German influences
Literature
Intuition in literature
Reason in literature
Romanticism
Transcendentalism (New England)
Literatur
Romantik
United States
Englisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005015124
ISBN 0826264964
9780826264961