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Author Greenberg, Robert M., 1943-

Title Splintered worlds : fragmentation and the ideal of diversity in the work of Emerson, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson / Robert M. Greenberg
Published Boston : Northeastern University Press, [1993]
©1993

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Description xi, 258 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Ch. 1. Introduction: Diversity, Democracy, and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination -- Pt. 1. Splintering Worlds. Ch. 2. Fragmentation in American Social and Intellectual Life -- Pt. 2. The Manyness of Things. Ch. 3. Shooting the Gulf: Emerson's Sense of Experience. Ch. 4. Multiplicity and Uncertainty in Melville's Moby-Dick -- Pt. 3. Isolatos. Ch. 5. Personalism and Fragmentation in Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855-1860). Ch. 6. Disconnection and Reconnection in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson -- Pt. 4. Conclusions. Ch. 7. Notes on Method; with Some Thoughts on the Diversitarian Spirit and Democracy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-248) and index
Subject Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 -- Political and social views.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 -- Political and social views.
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Political and social views.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Political and social views.
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Cultural pluralism in literature.
Difference (Psychology) in literature.
Cultural pluralism -- In literature.
Literature and history -- United States.
Modernism (Literature) -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
Social change in literature.
Social change -- In literature.
LC no. 93007480
ISBN 1555531679 (acid-free paper)