American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman

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Oxford 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

Hawthorne and James
293
Hawthorne and Milton
305
Coda
313
MOMENT OF TRANSITION
371
A SourceBook for Plenitude
377

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