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The Law of the Heart : Individualism and the Modern Self in American Literature /

The Law of the Heart is a vigorous challenge to the prevailing concept of the "antidemocratic" image of the self in the American literary and cultural tradition. Sam B. Girgus counters this interpretation and attempts to develop a new understanding of democratic individualism and liberal h...

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Autor principal: Girgus, Sam B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Chapter 1 The modem tradition and the American self : Individualism and the perverted self --   |t Chapter 2 Poe and the transcendent self --   |t Chapter 3 Emerson and Brownson: The scholar; the self, and society --   |t Chapter 4 Whitman: Culture and self --   |t Chapter 5 Howells: The rebel in the one-dimensional age --   |t Chapter 6 Inner death and freedom in Henry James --   |t Chapter 7 Charles Ives: A modern perversion of transcendentalism --   |t Chapter 8 Beyond the Diver complex: The dynamics of modem individualism in F. Scott Fitzgerald --   |t Chapter 9 The radical individualism of William James: A theory of experience and the self for today --   |t Chapter 10 After the sixties: The continuing search --   |t Notes --   |t Index 
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