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Transatlantic transformations of romanticism subjectivity, aesthetics and the environment Mark Sandy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sandy, Mark, 1970- author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh scholarship online.
- Edinburgh scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Romanticism--United States.
- Romanticism.
- Romanticism--Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2021]
- Summary:
- A critical re-evaluation of the imaginative transformations of Romanticism by major American writersThe study traverses the traditional critical boundaries of prose and poetry in American and Romantic and Post-Romantic writingReasserts the significance of Second-Generation Romantic writers for American literary cultureReassessing the indebtedness of major American writers to British RomanticismThis book provides innovative readings of literary works of British Romanticism and its influence on twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literary culture and thought. It traverses the traditional critical boundaries of prose and poetry in American and Romantic and post-Romantic writing. Analysing significant works by nineteenth-century writers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Emily Dickinson, as well as the later writings of William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison and Wallace Stevens, the book reasserts the significance of second-generation Romantic writers for American literary culture. Sandy reassesses our understanding of Romantic inheritance and influence on post-Romantic aesthetics, subjectivity and the natural world in the American imagination.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Part I. Imagining Nature
- Part II. Romantic Transactions: Subjects in Nature
- Part III. Romantic Transformations: Fictional Selves and Nature
- Coda: Nature without Self: Beauty, Death and Subjectivity in the Poetics of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-2150-4
- 1-4744-9582-6
- 1-4744-2149-0
- OCLC:
- 1238900380
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