Johannes Voelz, Transcendental Resistance: The New Americanists & Emerson’s Challenge
This wide-ranging yet highly focused book is a challenge to read. Emerson scholars will find it stimulating for what it reveals about the New England poet-philosopher’s tactful negotiation of the needs of a developing American market culture. In order to get there, however, they should be prepared...
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| 發表在: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas, |
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| 格式: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| 語言: | Anglais |
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European journal of American studies
2022
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| 在線閱讀: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 總結: | This wide-ranging yet highly focused book is a challenge to read. Emerson scholars will find it stimulating for what it reveals about the New England poet-philosopher’s tactful negotiation of the needs of a developing American market culture. In order to get there, however, they should be prepared to work through the complex chapters in which Voelz dissects the hidden utopian assumptions of the so-called “New Americanist” critics through their engagement with Emerson, the most “polarizing” w... |
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