Consciousness and culture: Emerson and Thoreau reviewed
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Main Author: Porte, Joel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven Yale University Press c2004
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Item Description:Paralleltitel: Consciousness & culture
Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-227) and index
Emerson, Thoreau, and the double consciousness -- Transcendental antics -- The problem of Emerson -- Representing America -- Emerson as journalist -- Emerson at Harvard -- Holmes's Emerson -- Emerson's French connection -- Henry Thoreau and the Reverend Poluphloisboios Thalassa -- Society and solitude -- "God himself culminates in the present moment" : thoughts on Thoreau's faith -- "In wildness is the preservation of the world" : the natural history of Henry David Thoreau -- Writing and reading New Englandly
Emerson, Thoreau, and the double consciousness -- - Transcendental antics -- - The problem of Emerson -- - Representing America -- - Emerson as journalist -- - Emerson at Harvard -- - Holmes's Emerson -- - Emerson's French connection -- - Henry Thoreau and the Reverend Polupholoisboios Thalassa -- - Society and solitude -- - "God himself culminates in the present moment" : thoughts on Thoreau's faith -- - "In wildness is the preservation of the world" : the natural history of Henry David Thoreau -- - Writing and reading New Englandly
Joel Porte examines the relationship between Emerson & Thoreau two of America's greatest writers. Sometimes characterised as rivals, sometimes as master & protegé, Porte argues that they were in fact complimentary literary geniuses, mutually inspiring & inspired
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xix, 234 p.)
ISBN:0300130570
9780300130577

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