American renaissance
art and expression in the age of Emerson and Whitman
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Author
Publication
1968 - Oxford University Press, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
169,500 words, Guess
Page Count
678 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL17785006M
- ISBN-10019500759X
- OCLC Control Number964317
- OCLC Control Number462473
- OCLC Control Numberamericanrenaissa0000matt_u6j2
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number41009633
- LibraryThing220968
- Goodreads1263626
Classifications
- LCCPS201
Description
American Renaissance has taken its place as the definitive treatment of that most distinguished age of our literature. Centering his discussion around five of its literary giants--Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman--Matthiessen elucidates their conceptions of nature and the function of literature, and the extent to which these were realized in their writings. The breadth of the book lies in the author's use of the five-year period from 1850 to 1855 as a focal point in interpreting what went before and what followed in the development of our prose and poetry. The masterpieces produced in this one extraordinarily concentrated moment of expression, and fully explored in these pages, include Representative Men, Walden, The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, Moby-Dick, Pierre, and Leaves of Grass.
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