Transcendentalism and the problem of literary vision in nineteenth-century America /
Kohler, Michelle, 1974-
Transcendentalism and the problem of literary vision in nineteenth-century America / Michelle Kohler. - 1 online resource
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"--
0817387668 (electronic bk.) 9780817387662 (electronic bk.) (trade cloth ; alk. paper) (trade cloth ; alk. paper)
1800-1899
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Transcendentalism in literature.
Realism in literature.
Figures of speech.
Polarity in literature.
American literature--History and criticism--New England--19th century.
Transcendentalism (New England)
Literature and society--History--United States--19th century.
Littérature américaine--Histoire et critique.--19e siècle
Transcendantalisme dans la littérature.
Réalisme dans la littérature.
Contraires dans la littérature.
Transcendantalisme (Philosophie américaine)
Littérature et société--Histoire--États-Unis--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)
Literatur
Transzendentalismus
Sehen
Realismus
New England.
United States.
USA
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PS217.T7 / K64 2014
810.9/384
Transcendentalism and the problem of literary vision in nineteenth-century America / Michelle Kohler. - 1 online resource
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"--
0817387668 (electronic bk.) 9780817387662 (electronic bk.) (trade cloth ; alk. paper) (trade cloth ; alk. paper)
1800-1899
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Transcendentalism in literature.
Realism in literature.
Figures of speech.
Polarity in literature.
American literature--History and criticism--New England--19th century.
Transcendentalism (New England)
Literature and society--History--United States--19th century.
Littérature américaine--Histoire et critique.--19e siècle
Transcendantalisme dans la littérature.
Réalisme dans la littérature.
Contraires dans la littérature.
Transcendantalisme (Philosophie américaine)
Littérature et société--Histoire--États-Unis--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)
Literatur
Transzendentalismus
Sehen
Realismus
New England.
United States.
USA
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PS217.T7 / K64 2014
810.9/384