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):

American literature--English influences.

American literature.

American literature--German influences.

Transcendentalism (New England).

Romanticism--United States.

Romanticism.

Intuition in literature.

Reason in literature.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (574 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

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:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

0-8262-6496-4

OCLC:

191934830