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 |
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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Subject |
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Knowledge -- Literature
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SUBJECT |
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 fast |
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo. swd |
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American literature -- English influences.
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American literature -- German influences
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Transcendentalism (New England)
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Romanticism -- United States
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Intuition in literature.
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Reason in literature.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
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American literature -- English influences
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American literature -- German influences
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Literature
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Intuition in literature
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Reason in literature
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Romanticism
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Transcendentalism (New England)
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Literatur
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Romantik
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United States
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Englisch.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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LC no. |
2005015124 |
ISBN |
0826264964 |
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9780826264961 |
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