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The Postcolonial and Imperial Experience in American Transcendentalism / by M. Paryz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Paryż, Marek.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literature.
- America--Literatures.
- America.
- Literature, Modern--19th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- Ethnology.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Fiction.
- World Literature.
- North American Literature.
- Nineteenth-Century Literature.
- Sociocultural Anthropology.
- Literary Theory.
- Fiction Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- World Literature.
- North American Literature.
- Nineteenth-Century Literature.
- Sociocultural Anthropology.
- Literary Theory.
- Fiction Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (251 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2012.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Analyses literary representations of the American experience in selected works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. Reveals the ambivalence that underlay the cultural and political development of the United States as a former colony.
- Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Mapping the Field; Part I Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Double Figuration; 1 Figures of Dependence: Exploring the Postcolonial in Emerson's Selected Texts; 2 Beyond the Traveler's Testimony: English Traits and the Construction of Postcolonial Counter- Discourse; 3 Emerson, New England, and the Rhetoric of Expansion; Part II Henry David Thoreau: The Imperial Imaginary; 4 Thoreau's Imperial Fantasy: Walden versus Robinson Crusoe; 5 The Politics of the Genre: Exploration and Ethnography in The Maine Woods
- Part III Walt Whitman: The National Trajectory6 Postcolonial Whitman: The Poet and the Nation in the 1855 Preface to Leaves of Grass; 7 Passage to (More Than) India: The Poetics and Politics of Whitman's Textualization of the Orient; Conclusion: Representative Men; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613613448
- 9781280583643
- 1280583649
- 9781137012180
- 1137012188
- OCLC:
- 778698179
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