Emerson, romanticism, and intuitive reason: the transatlantic "light of all our day"
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Main Author: Keane, Patrick J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia University of Missouri Press 2005
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. 521-541) and index
"Comparative study in transatlantic Romanticism that traces the links between German idealism, British Romanticism (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Carlyle), and American Transcendentalism. Focuses on Emerson's development and use of the concept of intuitive Reason, which became the intellectual and emotional foundation of American Transcendentalism"--Provided by publisher
Introduction: the critics and the participants -- Intuitive reason: the light of all our day -- Emerson's discipleship: resistance -- Emerson's discipleship: shedding benignant influence -- Powers and pulsations: quotation and originality -- Intuition and tuition: reading nature and the use and abuse of books -- Passivity and activity -- Solitude and society: self-reliance and communal responsibility -- Divinity within: the godlike self and the divinity school address -- Emerson among the Orphic poets -- Emersonian "optimism" and "the stream of tendency" -- Wordsworthian hope: the deaths of Ellen and Edward -- Mourning becomes morning: the death of Charles -- Wordsworth's ode, Waldo, and "Threnody."
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 555 p.)
ISBN:0826216021
0826264964
9780826216021
9780826264961

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