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9780974115894

Transcendence : Seers and Seekers in the Age of Thoreau

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    9780974115894

  • ISBN10:

    0974115894

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-09-30
  • Publisher: Higganum Hill Books
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Summary

The immense changes to the moral and civic values of preCivil War America that the Transcendentalists advocated are explored in this account. Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Daniel Webster, as well as painters such as paranoramic landscapist Frederic Church, are among the creators whose contributions to the period of cultural reformation are discussed.

Author Biography

Frantois Specq is an associate professor who specializes in 19th-century American literature at the UniversitT LumiFre–Lyon 2.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii
AMERICAN WILDERNESS
Frederic Church's America
1(20)
Thoreau's ``Chesuncook,'' or Romantic Nature Imperiled
21(14)
THOREAU AND EMERSON
Thoreau's Flowering of Facts and the Truth of Experience
35(20)
Dwelling and Labyrinth in Thoreau's Journal
55(16)
Losing sight of oneself in what one sees: Nature Writing and Thoreau's Journal
71(16)
Emerson's Literary Ethics
87(24)
Emerson's Rhetoric of Empowerment
111(14)
MELVILLE
``Truth comes in with darkness'': Transparence and Opacity in ``The Piazza''
125(20)
Prophecy and the Grotesque in ``The Encantadas''
145(28)
Melville's Dream: Journal of a Visit to Europe and the Levant
173(12)
VISIONS OF EMPIRE
Quest for the Sublime and Rhetoric of Empire in Bradford's Arctic Regions
185(32)
Bibliography 217(8)
Index 225

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