The esoteric origins of the American Renaissance / / Arthur Versluis
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| Autore: |
Versluis Arthur <1959->
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| Titolo: |
The esoteric origins of the American Renaissance / / Arthur Versluis
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| Pubblicazione: | New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 810.9/37 |
| Soggetto topico: | Divination - Europe - History |
| Divination - United States - History | |
| Divination in literature | |
| American literature - History and criticism | |
| Literature | |
| Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 2001. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 European Esoteric Currents; 3 Esotericism in Early America; 4 The Esoteric Ambience of the American Renaissance; 5 Hitchcock; 6 Poe; 7 Hawthorne; 8 Melville; 9 Greaves; 10 Alcott; 11 Emerson; 12 Fuller; 13 Whitman; 14 Dickinson; 15 The Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Arthur Versluis breaks new ground, showing that many writers of the so-called American Renaissance drew extensively on and were inspired by Western esoteric currents, i.e. a range of spiritual currents including alchemy, geomancy and magic. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The esoteric origins of the American Renaissance |
| ISBN: | 0-19-028602-4 |
| 0-19-773903-2 | |
| 1-280-48108-0 | |
| 0-19-535004-9 | |
| 1-4237-6228-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910962394103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Oxford scholarship online.