Miles of Stare : Transcendentalism and the Problem of Literary Vision in Nineteenth-Century America /

"Miles of Stare explores the problem of nineteenth-century American literary vision: the strange conflation of visible reality and poetic language that emerges repeatedly in the metaphors and literary creations of American Transcendentalists"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kohler, Michelle, 1974-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Realismus
Sehen > Motiv
Transzendentalismus
Literatur
Transcendentalism (New England)
Transcendentalism in literature.
Realism in literature.
Polarity in literature.
Literature and society.
Figures of speech.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Litterature et societe > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Transcendantalisme (Philosophie americaine)
Contraires dans la litterature.
Realisme dans la litterature.
Transcendantalisme dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
American literature > New England > History and criticism > 19th century.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
USA
United States.
New England.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the stare that signalizes
  • Emerson, transcendentalism, and the problem of literary vision
  • Doomed to be a witness: the authority of ineluctable vision in Douglass's slave narratives
  • Dim optics: privacy, access, and the reluctant seer in Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables
  • Scarce opon my eyes: fleeting visions and the epistemology of metaphor in Dickinson's poetry
  • To arrange a perspective: Howells, Jewett, and the provoked eye of realism
  • Conclusion.

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