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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788517103321

Autore

Hardack Richard

Titolo

"Not altogether human" : pantheism and the dark nature of the American renaissance / / Richard Hardack

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2012

©2012

ISBN

1-61376-197-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 291 p. )

Disciplina

810.9/384

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Transcendentalism in literature

Pantheism in literature

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

"The seductive god": Pan and the emergence of a transcendental America -- The "not me": the black nature of an animated world -- "A democracy of devils": the limits of individualism in Emerson and Melville -- The melancholy of anatomy: the body politics of American pantheism.