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Autore |
Harvey Samantha <1972-> |
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Transatlantic transcendentalism : Coleridge, Emerson, and nature / / Samantha C. Harvey [[electronic resource]] |
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Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2013 |
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0-7486-9388-2 |
0-7486-8137-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (ix, 218 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures EUP |
Edinburgh studies in transatlantic literatures |
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Soggetti |
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Transcendentalism (New England) |
Philosophy in literature |
Nature in literature |
American literature - History and criticism |
American literature - English influences |
Romanticism - Influence |
Romanticism - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Transatlantic transcendentalism -- Coleridge and Boston transcendentalism -- Nature : philosophy and the "riddle of the world" -- The landing place : "distinguishing without dividing" and Coleridge's method -- Humanity : "art is the mediatree, the reconciliator of man and nature" -- Spirit : "an influx of the divine mind" -- Emerson's Nature : Coleridge's method and the romantic triad -- Coleridge and Vermont transcendentalism. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The first book devoted to Coleridge's influence on Emerson and the development of American Transcendentalism. As Samantha Harvey demonstrates, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's thought galvanized Emerson at a pivotal moment in his intellectual development in the years 1826-1836, giving him new ways to harmonize the Romantic triad of nature, spirit and humanity. Emerson did not think about Coleridge: he thought with Coleridge, resulting in a unique case of assimilative influence. In |
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addition to examining his specific literary, philosophical, and theological influences on Emerson, this book reveals Coleridge's centrality for Boston Transcendentalism and Vermont Transcendentalism, a movement which profoundly affected the development of modern higher education, the national press, and the emergence of Pragmatism. |
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