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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827043403321

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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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

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.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Emerson, Romanticism, and Intuitive Reason A -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Prologue -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Intuitive Reason -- Chapter 3 Emerson's Discipleship -- Chapter 4 Emerson's Discipleship -- Chapter 5 Powers and Pulsations -- Chapter 6 Intuition and Tuition -- Chapter 7 Passivity and Activity -- Chapter 8 Solitude and Society -- Chapter 9 Divinity Within -- Chapter 10 Emerson among the Orphic Poets -- Chapter 11 Emersonian "Optimism" and "The Stream of Tendency" -- Chapter 12 Wordsworthian Hope -- Chapter 13 Mourning Becomes Morning -- Chapter 14 Wordsworth's Ode,Waldo, and "Threnody" -- Appendix "LAODAMIA" AND "DION" -- Bibliography -- 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.