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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keane, Patrick J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882--Criticism and interpretation.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882--Knowledge and learning--Literature.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.

Literature.

American literature--English influences.

American literature.

American literature--German influences.

Transcendentalism (New England).

Romanticism--United States.

Romanticism.

Criticism and interpretation.

United States.

Intuition in literature.

Reason in literature.

Physical Description:

xv, 555 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2005]

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Introduction: the critics and the participants

Intuitive reason: the light of all our day

Emerson's discipleship: resistance

Emerson's discipleship: shedding benignant influence

Powers and pulsations: quotation and originality

Intuition and tuition: reading nature and the use and abuse of books

Passivity and activity

Solitude and society: self-reliance and communal responsibility

Divinity within: the godlike self and the divinity school address

Emerson among the Orphic poets

Emersonian "optimism" and "the stream of tendency"

Wordsworthian hope: the deaths of Ellen and Edward

Mourning becomes morning: the death of Charles

Wordsworth's ode, Waldo, and "Threnody".

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0826216021

OCLC:

60523034

Publisher Number:

9780826216021