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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450152403321

Autore

Keane Patrick J

Titolo

Emerson, romanticism, and intuitive reason [[electronic resource] ] : the transatlantic "light of all our day" / / Patrick J. Keane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, 2005

ISBN

0-8262-6496-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (574 p.)

Disciplina

814/.3

Soggetti

American literature - English influences

American literature - German influences

Transcendentalism (New England)

Romanticism - United States

Intuition in literature

Reason in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 521-541) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Comparative study in transatlantic Romanticism that traces the links between German idealism, British Romanticism (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Carlyle), and American Transcendentalism. Focuses on Emerson's development and use of the concept of intuitive Reason, which became the intellectual and emotional foundation of American Transcendentalism"--Provided by publisher.