American Romanticism

by Hurley, Jennifer A.

• ISBN13: 9780737702033
• ISBN10: 0737702036
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Greenhaven Pr

Summary

Essays explore the social, philosophical, and political trends that influenced Romanticism.

Table of Contents

Foreword	9	(11)
Introduction	11	(2)
A Historical Overview of American Romanticism	13	(14)
Defining American Romanticism
America During the Period of Romanticism	27	(5)
Rex J. Burbank
Jack B. Moore
Romantic Writers See the World as an Organic Whole	32	(7)
Richard Harter Fogle
American Romanticism Expresses a Belief in Self-Reliance	39	(5)
Tremaine McDowell
American Romanticism Is Humanistic	44	(8)
David Bowers
American Romanticism Challenged the Values of America	52	(8)
Warren Staebler
Transcendentalism
Transcendentalism Was a Religious and Intellectual Movement	60	(8)
Mark Richard Barna
Transcendentalism Is a Philosophy of Optimism	68	(7)
Paul F. Boller Jr.
The Role of Nature in Transcendentalism	75	(4)
Lawrence Buell
Nature in American Romanticism
Nature and the American Consciousness	79	(5)
Joshua Johns
American Romantics View Nature as a Metaphor for the Self	84	(8)
Bernard Rosenthal
Emerson's and Thoreau's Understanding of Nature	92	(5)
Ann Woodlief
Differing Perceptions of Nature in American and European Romanticism	97	(9)
Tony Tanner
The Individual in American Romanticism
Thoreau: The Individual Versus the Institution	106	(7)
Michael J. Hoffman
Whitman's Individualism	113	(7)
Newton Arvin
The Isolation of the Individual in Moby-Dick	120	(8)
Quentin Anderson
Emerson's Vision of the Self	128	(5)
Evan Carton
Allegory and Symbolism
Poe's Motifs of Enclosure	133	(10)
Richard Wilbur
Hawthorne's Use of Allegory	143	(6)
Michael Davitt Bell
Symbolism in Moby-Dick	149	(6)
F.O. Matthiessen
The Symbols in Whitman's ``When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd''	155	(6)
Charles Feidelson Jr.
Chronology	161	(4)
For Further Research	165	(4)
Index	169