Visionary compacts : American renaissance writings in cultural context
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| Format: | Livre papier |
| Language: | Anglais |
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Madison :
The University of Wisconsin Press
1987.
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| Series: | The Wisconsin project on American writers
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Visionary compacts and the Cold War consensus
- 2. Hawthorne's discovery of a pre- Revolutionary past
- 3. A romance with the public will
- 4. Walt Whitman and the vox populi of the American masses
- 5. Edgar A. Poe : the lost soul of America's tradition
- 6. Emerson and the Law of Nature
- 7. Melville and cultural persuasion