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Transcendentalist Hermeneutics : Institutional Authority and the Higher Criticism of the Bible /
American literary historians have viewed Ralph Waldo Emerson's resignation from the Unitarian ministry in 1832 in favor of a literary career as emblematic of a main current in American literature. That current is directed toward the possession of a self that is independent and fundamentally opp...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
1991.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | American literary historians have viewed Ralph Waldo Emerson's resignation from the Unitarian ministry in 1832 in favor of a literary career as emblematic of a main current in American literature. That current is directed toward the possession of a self that is independent and fundamentally opposed to the "accoutrements of society and civilization" and expresses a Transcendentalist antipathy toward all institutionalized forms of religious observance. In the ongoing revision of American literary history, this traditional reading of the supposed anti-institutionalism of the Transcendenta. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (207 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780822382829 |