American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and WhitmanOxford University Press, 1968 M12 31 - 720 pages Studies 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. |
Contents
The Word One with the Thing | 30 |
ALLEGORY AND SYMBOLISM | 42 |
THE METAPHYSICAL STRAIN | 100 |
The Mingling of Walden and Ganges | 113 |
Ishmaels Loom of Time | 121 |
The Imagination as Mirror | 179 |
The Crucial Definition of Romance | 264 |
From Young Goodman Brown to The | 282 |
THE REVENGERS TRAGEDY | 396 |
445 | 460 |
THE TROUBLED MIND | 467 |
REASSERTION OF THE HEART | 488 |
ONLY A LANGUAGE EXPERIMENT | 517 |
Rhythm in its last ruggedness and decom | 578 |
MAN IN THE OPEN | 626 |
CHRONOLOGY | 657 |
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Common terms and phrases
Ahab Ahab's allegory American analogy artist aware beauty become believed Billy Budd called Carlyle century chapter character Coleridge conception Concord consciousness contrast criticism death declared divine doctrine Eliot Emer Emerson England essay Ethan Brand evil experience expression eyes fact feeling felt final genius Hawthorne Hawthorne's heart Henry James human ideal imagination James journal kind knew language Leaves of Grass less literature living man's Marble Faun Mardi Margaret Fuller means Melville Melville's ment merely mind Moby-Dick myth nature never observed Over-Soul passage phrase Pierre poem poet poetry prose remark rhetoric rhythm romantic Scarlet Letter seems sense sentence Shakespeare soul speech spirit Starbuck strain style suggested symbol theme things Thoreau thought tion tragedy transcendental transcendentalists truth Twice-Told Tales Van Wyck Brooks verse Walden wanted whale Whitman whole words writing wrote