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The complicity of imagination : the American renaissance, contests of authority, and seventeenth-century English culture /
The Complicity of Imagination examines the rich and complex relationship between four nineteenth-century authors and the culture and politics of seventeenth-century England. Challenging the notion that antebellum Americans were burdened by a sense of cultural inferiority in both their thought and th...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
106. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Antebellum America and the culture of seventeenth-century England
- Cultural predicaments and authorial responses
- "A seraph's eloquence": Emerson's inspired language and Milton's apocalyptic prose
- Margaret Fuller's "The Two Herberts," Emerson, and the disavowal of sequestered virtue
- "As if a green bough were laid across the page": Thoreau's seventeenth-century landscapes and extravagant personae
- Melville's Mardi and Moby-Dick, marvelous travel narratives, and seventeenth-century methods of inquiry
- Surmising the infidel: Melville reads Milton.