The Victorian Fol Sage: Comparative Readings on Carlyle, Emerson, Melville, and ConradBucknell University Press, 1989 - 132 pages In considering the responses of Carlyle, Emerson, Melville, and Conrad to Montaigne and to one another, this work focuses on the fundamental contradiction between wisdom and art and demonstrates that this contradiction impels the writing of the Essais and generates the Victorian sage's antic speculations. |
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Emersons Divine Comedy | 38 |
Melvilles Mute Glass | 59 |
Of Blindness in Conrads Spectacular Universe | 86 |
The Consolation of Folly | 98 |
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