Literary Transcendentalism Style and vision in the American Renaissance

Buell, Lawrence

Literary Transcendentalism Style and vision in the American Renaissance - New York: Cornell University Press, 1973. - 336p.

IntroductionPart I. Background and General Principles1. The Emergence of the Transcendentalist Aesthetic from American Unitarianism2. Transcendentalist Literary Method: Inspiration versus CraftsmanshipPart II. The Living Word3. From Conversation to Essay4. From Sermon to ScripturePart III. Word and World: Nature as a Model for Literary Form5. Emerson and the Idea of Microcosmic Form6. Catalogue Rhetoric7. Thoreau and the Literary Excursion8. Thoreau's A Week9. Ellery Channing: The Major Phase of a Minor PoetPart IV. The First Person10. Transcendentalist Self-Examination and Autobiographical Tradition11. Emerson and Thoreau: Soul versus Self12. Transcendental Egoism in Very and WhitmanIndex

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Literature (General).
Nature as a Model.
Transcendental Egoism.

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