We Stand before the Secret of the World: Traces along the Pathway of American Romanticism

We Stand before the Secret of the World: Traces along the Pathway of American Romanticism

Deu assajos publicats amb anterioritat que, en conjunt, tenen la finalitat de proporcionar un debat coherent de la filosofia antisistemàtica del trascendentalisme americà i la forma que es reflecteix en diversos escriptors i pintors dels segles XIX i XX als Estats Units. Reflexiona sobre les implicacions de la revolució romàntica en el pensament occidental i demostrar la importància del romanticisme per al desenvolupament de la cultura americana.
  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface
  • I. An Introductory Overview
    • Chapter 1. Transcendentalism and the America Sense of the Divine
  • II. Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Chapter 2. Emerson's Nature: The Romantic Case Against Science
    • Chapter 3. The Romantic Science of "The American Schlar"
    • Chapter 4. Variations on a Theme. Some Notes on the Emersonian Poet
  • III. Emily Dickinson
    • Chapter 5. Emily Dickinson's Letters: The Piercing Virtue of Pain
    • Chapter 6. The Growth of an American Eve: Emily Dickinson in the Romantic Garden of Eden
    • Chapter 7. The Undiscovered Country from Whose Bourn Some Travelers Do Return, The Final Frontier in Poe and Dickinson
  • IV. William Faulkner
    • Chapter 8. Go Down, Moses: An Essay in (Extended) Coherence
    • Chapter 9. Isaac's Choice: The Romantic Dimension of Isaac McCaslin's Freedom
    • Chapter 10. A Uniform Hierglyphic: Further Shades of Meaning in Go Down, Moses

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