American Renaissance : Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman.

American Renaissance : Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman.

Studies the views of 5 prominent mid-19th century writers on the function and nature of literature and how they applied these views to their works.

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Bibliographic Details
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press, USA 1968.
Series:Oxford University Press paperback
Subjects:
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
United States > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • BOOK ONE: FROM EMERSON TO THOREAU
  • I. IN THE OPTATIVE MOOD
  • 1. Consciousness
  • 2. Eloquence
  • 3. Expression
  • 4. The Word One with the Thing
  • 5. 'The light of the body is the eye'
  • 6. A Few Herbs and Apples
  • 7. The Flowing
  • 8. Self-Portrait of Saadi
  • II. THE ACTUAL GLORY
  • 1. Expected Unexpectedness
  • 2. What Music Shall We Have?
  • 3. Thinking in Images
  • III. THE METAPHYSICAL STRAIN
  • 1. Man Thinking
  • 2. The Mingling of Walden and Ganges
  • 3. Ishmael's Loom of Time
  • IV. THE ORGANIC PRINCIPLE
  • 1. From Coleridge to Emerson
  • 2. Horatio Greenough.
  • 3. Thoreau
  • 4. New England Landscapes
  • 5. Walden: Craftsmanship vs. Technique
  • BOOK TWO: HAWTHORNE
  • V. THE VISION OF EVIL
  • VI. PROBLEM OF THE ARTIST AS NEW ENGLANDER
  • 1. Starting Point
  • 2. The First Tales
  • 3. 'To open an intercourse with the world'
  • 4. The Haunted Mind
  • VII. ALLEGORY AND SYMBOLISM
  • Theory
  • 1. The American Bias and Background
  • 2. The Imagination as Mirror
  • 3. The Crucial Definition of Romance
  • Practice
  • 1. The Scarlet Letter
  • 2. From 'Young Goodman Brown' to 'The Whiteness of the Whale'
  • 3. Hawthorne and James
  • 4. Hawthorne and Milton
  • Coda.
  • VIII. A DARK NECESSITY
  • 1. Hawthorne's Politics, with the Economic Structure of The Seven Gables
  • 2. Hawthorne's Psychology: The Acceptance of Good and Evil
  • 3. From Hawthorne to James to Eliot
  • BOOK THREE: MELVILLE
  • IX. MOMENT OF TRANSITION
  • 1. 'Out of unhandselled savage nature'
  • 2. Mardi: A Source-Book for Plenitude
  • 3. Autobiography and Art
  • X. THE REVENGER'S TRAGEDY
  • 1. The Economic Factor
  • 2. 'The world's a ship on its passage out'
  • 3. Structure
  • 4. 'A bold and nervous lofty language'
  • 5. The Matching of the Forces
  • 6. The Fate of the Ungodly God-like Man.
  • 7. The Levels Beyond
  • XI. THE TROUBLED MIND
  • XII. REASSERTION OF THE HEART
  • 1. An Alien to His Contemporaries
  • 2. Billy Budd, Foretopman
  • BOOK FOUR: WHITMAN
  • XIII. ONLY A LANGUAGE EXPERIMENT
  • 1. 'Words! book-words! what are you?'
  • 2. Vision and Attitude
  • 3. Three Analogies for a Poem
  • 4. 'Rhythm in its last ruggedness and decomposition'
  • 5. 'Landscapes projected masculine, full-sized and golden'
  • XIV. MAN IN THE OPEN AIR
  • 1. The Need for Mythology
  • 2. Representative Men
  • 3. American Demigods
  • 4. Full Circle
  • CHRONOLOGY
  • INDEX
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G.
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • V
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