American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and WhitmanStudies the views of 5 prominent mid-19th century writers on the function and nature of literature and how they applied these views to their works. |
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Contents
| 3 | |
THE ACTUAL GLORY | 76 |
THE METAPHYSICAL STRAIN | 100 |
THE ORGANIC PRINCIPLE | 133 |
THE VISION OF EVIL | 179 |
PROBLEM OF THE ARTIST AS NEW ENGLANDER | 192 |
ALLEGORY AND SYMBOLISM | 242 |
A DARK NECESSITY | 316 |
MOMENT OF TRANSITION | 371 |
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American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman F. O. Matthiessen No preview available - 1968 |
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Ahab Ahab's allegory American analogy artist aware beauty become believed Billy Budd called century chapter character Coleridge conception contrast criticism death declared democratic divine Eliot Emerson England essay Ethan Brand evil experience expression eyes fact feeling felt final Greenough Hawthorne Hawthorne's heart Henry James human ideal imagination Ishmael Israel Potter James journal kind knew language Leaves of Grass less literature living man's Marble Faun Mardi means Melville Melville's ment merely mind Moby-Dic Moby-Dick moral nature never observed passage phrase Pierre poem poet poetry prose remark rhetoric rhythm romantic Scarlet Letter scene seems sense sentence Shakespeare sketch soul spirit Starbuck story strain style suggested symbol theme things Thoreau thought tion tragedy transcendental transcendentalists truth Twice-Told Tales Van Wyck Brooks verse voice Walden wanted whale Whitman whole words writing wrote
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| Title | American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman Galaxy Books |
| Author | F. O. Matthiessen |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1968 |
| ISBN | 0199726884, 9780199726882 |
| Length | 720 pages |
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