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Not altogether human : pantheism and the dark nature of the American renaissance /

"Many leading American thinkers in the nineteenth century, who accepted the premises of Emersonian transcendentalism, valued the basic concept of pantheism: that God inheres in nature and in all things, and that a person could achieve a sense of belonging she or he lacked in society by seeking...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hardack, Richard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "The seductive god": Pan and the emergence of a transcendental America
  • The "not me": the black nature of an animated world
  • "A democracy of devils": the limits of individualism in Emerson and Melville
  • The melancholy of anatomy: the body politics of American pantheism.