Voyages of the self : pairs, parallels, and patterns in American art and literature
Through reading paintings and texts from the same period against each other, the author shows how the meaning of self has influenced and changed through American identity and culture from the late 18th to the 20th century
Electronic books
1 online resource (xii, 217 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
9780195345650, 9780195305906, 9781281163158, 9781429468930, 9786611163150, 0195345657, 0195305906, 1281163155, 1429468939, 6611163158
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Copley and Edwards : self, consciousness, and thing
Emerson and Lane : luminist time and the transcendental aboriginal self
Thoreau and Indian selfhood : circles, silence, and democratic land
Whitman and Church : transcendent optimism and the democratic self
Homer and James : the pragmatic self made concrete
Dickinson and Ryder : immortality, eternity, and the reclusive self
Pollock and Olson : time, space, and the activated bodily self
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English
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