Romantic Dialogues : Anglo-American Continuities, 1776-1862

by Gravil, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780312227166
• ISBN10: 0312227167
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-02
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Richard Gravil explores the relationship between works of the "American Renaissance," in particular the works of the Transcendentalists, and British Romanticism, emphasizing the significance of the American Revolution to British writers and the role of Fenimore Cooper in the foundation of American literature. He focuses on the reception of Wordsworth and Coleridge by Emerson and Thoreau, Melville's reading of Coleridge and Whitman's transfiguration of Wordsworth, the response of Hawthorne and Poe to Coleridge and Keats, and the exceptional intertextuality of Emily Dickinson.

Author Biography

Richard Gravil is Reader in Literary Studies at the University College of St. Mark and St. John.

Table of Contents

Permissions	viii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	xi
Part I Revolution and Independence, 1776-1837
The Anglo-American Revolution	3	(20)
Romantic Americas	23	(24)
Consanguinity and In(ter)dependence	47	(22)
Part II Redeeming the Promise of England, 1823-1862
James Fenimore Cooper and the Specter of Edmund Burke	69	(22)
Nature and Walden: Visionary Gleams	91	(26)
Romancing Romanticism: Hawthorne and Poe	117	(22)
The Whale and the Albatross: Melville's Active Universe	139	(24)
Discharged Soldiers and Runaway Slaves	163	(24)
Emily Dickinson's Imaginary Conversations	187	(22)
Excursus Note: The War of 1820; or, Colonel Gardner's Campaign	209	(4)
Notes	213	(30)
Index	243