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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136644103321

Autore

Buell Lawrence

Titolo

Literary Transcendentalism : Style and Vision in the American Renaissance

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cornell University Press, 1973

Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, [1973]

©[1973]

ISBN

1-5017-0765-5

1-5017-0766-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (351 pages)

Collana

Cornell Paperbacks

Disciplina

810/.9/38

Soggetti

Transcendentalism (New England)

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

United States Intellectual life 1783-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. Background and General Principles -- Part II. The Living Word -- Part III. Word and World: Nature as a Model for Literary Form -- Part IV. The First Person -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

›p Lawrence Buell combines intellectual history and critical explication, giving equal attention to general trends and to particular works and individuals. His chapters on conversation, religious discourse, catalog rhetoric, and literary travelogue treat intensively topics that have been relatively neglected. His analyses of Ellery Channing's poetry and the use of persona in Emerson and Very are also innovative. In the final section, he offers the first systematic account of the autobiographical tradition in transcendentalist writing.›pp›