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Emerson, romanticism, and intuitive reason : the transatlantic "light of all our day" /

"Comparative study in transatlantic Romanticism that traces the links between German idealism, British Romanticism (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Carlyle), and American Transcendentalism. Focuses on Emerson's development and use of the concept of intuitive Reason, which became the intellectual an...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Keane, Patrick J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2005.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the critics and the participants
  • Intuitive reason: the light of all our day
  • Emerson's discipleship: resistance
  • Emerson's discipleship: shedding benignant influence
  • Powers and pulsations: quotation and originality
  • Intuition and tuition: reading nature and the use and abuse of books
  • Passivity and activity
  • Solitude and society: self-reliance and communal responsibility
  • Divinity within: the godlike self and the divinity school address
  • Emerson among the Orphic poets
  • Emersonian "optimism" and "the stream of tendency"
  • Wordsworthian hope: the deaths of Ellen and Edward
  • Mourning becomes morning: the death of Charles
  • Wordsworth's ode, Waldo, and "Threnody."