Visionary Compacts: American Renaissance Writings in Cultural Context

acknowledge action adventure Ahab Ahab's allegory American jeremiad American Renaissance Arthur become called character claim Cold War collective memory conflicting consciousness context contradiction Custom House demands democracy democratic Dimmesdale disconnection discussion displacement dissent Edgar Poe Emerson essay existence experience F. O. Matthiessen fathers figure freedom Hawthorne Hawthorne's Hester historical ideal idealist identity individual individual's inner Ishmael jeremiad Leaves of Grass liberty literary lives masses Matthiessen Melville Melville's metaphor Moby-Dick modern motives narrative narrator nature nature's negative freedom Old World opposition orators passion Pearl person persuasion Poe's political politicians present principles Puritan Pym's recover reflection regeneration relation relationship represent representations Revolution Revolutionary mythos rhetoric romance Scarlet Letter scene sense separation shared slavery social spirit spoils system Starbuck tale things tion Tocqueville tradition turned twice-told tales University Press Unlike visionary compact Walt Whitman Whitman words writing