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Genre/Form: | Electronic book Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Keane, Patrick J. Emerson, romanticism, and intuitive reason. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2005 (DLC) 2005015124 |
Named Person: | Ralph Waldo Emerson; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Material Type: | Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Patrick J Keane |
ISBN: | 0826264964 9780826264961 |
OCLC Number: | 191934830 |
Language Note: | English. |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 555 pages) |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
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." |
Responsibility: | Patrick J. Keane. |
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Abstract:
A comparative study in transatlantic Romanticism, focusing on Emerson's part in the American dialogue with British Romanticism and, as filtered through Coleridge, German Idealist philosophy. The book's guiding theme is the concept of intuitive Reason, which Emerson derived from Coleridge's distinction between Understanding and Reason.
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