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The esoteric origins of the American Renaissance / Arthur Versluis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Versluis, Arthur, 1959- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Divination--Europe--History.
- Divination.
- Divination--United States--History.
- Divination in literature.
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-028602-4
- 0-19-773903-2
- 1-280-48108-0
- 0-19-535004-9
- 1-4237-6228-2
- OCLC:
- 476025320
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