Transcendentalism and the problem of literary vision in Nineteenth-Century America /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Michelle Kohler
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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x, 227 pages ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"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" --
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism
American literature-- New England-- History and criticism-- 19th century
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Literature and society-- United States-- History-- 19th century