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"Not altogether human" : pantheism and the dark nature of the American renaissance / Richard Hardack.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hardack, Richard, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Transcendentalism in literature.
- Pantheism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 291 p. )
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : University of Massachusetts Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Many leading American thinkers in the nineteenth century, who accepted the premises of Emersonian transcendentalism, valued the basic concept of pantheism: that God inheres in nature and in all things, and that a person could achieve a sense of belonging she or he lacked in society by seeking a oneness with all of nature.
- Contents:
- "The seductive god": Pan and the emergence of a transcendental America
- The "not me": the black nature of an animated world
- "A democracy of devils": the limits of individualism in Emerson and Melville
- The melancholy of anatomy: the body politics of American pantheism.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-197-X
- OCLC:
- 859673290
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