Transcendentalism and the problem of literary vision in nineteenth-century America / Michelle Kohler.
Material type: TextPublisher: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- online resource
- 0817387668
- 9780817387662
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Transcendentalism in literature
- Realism in literature
- Figures of speech
- Polarity in literature
- American literature -- New England -- History and criticism -- 19th century
- Transcendentalism (New England)
- Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Littérature américaine -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Transcendantalisme dans la littérature
- Réalisme dans la littérature
- Contraires dans la littérature
- Transcendantalisme (Philosophie américaine)
- Littérature et société -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- American literature
- Figures of speech
- Literature and society
- Polarity in literature
- Realism in literature
- Transcendentalism in literature
- Transcendentalism (New England)
- New England
- United States
- Literatur
- Transzendentalismus
- Sehen Motiv
- Realismus
- USA
- 1800-1899
- 810.9/384 23
- PS217.T7 K64 2014
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: the stare that signalizes -- Emerson, transcendentalism, and the problem of literary vision -- Doomed to be a witness: the authority of ineluctable vision in Douglass's slave narratives -- Dim optics: privacy, access, and the reluctant seer in Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables -- Scarce opon my eyes: fleeting visions and the epistemology of metaphor in Dickinson's poetry -- To arrange a perspective: Howells, Jewett, and the provoked eye of realism -- Conclusion.
"Miles of Stare explores the problem of nineteenth-century American literary vision: the strange conflation of visible reality and poetic language that emerges repeatedly in the metaphors and literary creations of American Transcendentalists"-- Provided by publisher.
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