Above time : Emerson's and Thoreau's temporal revolutions / James R. Guthrie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guthrie, James R. (James Robert)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882--Views on time.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo.

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862--Views on time.

Thoreau, Henry David.

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Time in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Above Time, James R. Guthrie explores the origins of the two preeminent transcendentalists' revolutionary approaches to time, as well as to the related concepts of history, memory, and change. Most critical discussions of this period neglect the important truth that the entire American transcendentalist project involved a transcendence of temporality as well as of materiality. Correspondingly, both writers call in their major works for temporal reform, to be achieved primarily by rejecting the past and future in order to live in an amplified present moment.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. A History of Time: Emerson and Lyell, Agassiz,

and Darwin 6

2. "My Camac" and Memnon's Head: Temporal Reform

and Timely Memorials in A Week on the Concord and

Merrimack Rivers 46

3. Circles and Lines: Emerson's Parade of Days 92

4. The Walking Stick, the Surveyor's Staff, and the Corn

in the Night: Thoreau's Alternative Temporal Indices 131

5. Answering the Sphinx: The Evolution of the Emersonian

Metamorphosis 173

6. Inches' Wood: Thoreau's Re-membered Cultural

7. Landscape 201

Extemporaneous Man, Representative Man 235

Works Cited 253

Index 259.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-257) and index.

ISBN:

0-8262-6377-1

OCLC:

300298942