Research Catalog

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Description

1. xv, 555 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

1. "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.

Subject

1. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 > Knowledge > Literature
2. Transcendentalism (New England)
3. American literature > English influences
4. Romanticism > United States
5. Reason in literature
6. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 > Criticism and interpretation
7. American literature > German influences
8. Intuition in literature

Contents

1. 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".

Call number

1. JFE 06-3793

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 521-541) and index.

Author

1. Keane, Patrick J.

Title

1. Emerson, romanticism, and intuitive reason : the transatlantic "light of all our day" / Patrick J. Keane.

Imprint

1. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2005.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 521-541) and index.

Connect to:

1. Table of contents

LCCN

1. 2005015124

Other standard identifier

1. 9780826216021

ISBN

1. 0826216021 (alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 06-3793