Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" / D.H. Lawrence -- Method and scope / F.O. Matthiessen -- Shakespeare and Melville / Charles Olson -- Nathaniel Hawthorne / Jorge Luis Borges -- Introduction to Walden and Civil Disobedience / Sherman Paul -- Whitman' image of voice : to the tally of my soul / Harold Bloom -- The curse of Kehama / Barbara Packer -- The Poet / Julie Ellison -- Hawthorne, Melville, and the fiction of prophecy / Richard Brodhead -- The literary significance of the Unitarian Movement / Lawrence Buell -- Introduction to Leaves of Grass / John Hollander -- Margaret Fuller's Aesthetic Transcendentalism and its legacy / Kathy Kurtzman Lawrence -- A mourner among the children : Emily Dickinson's early religious crisis / Elizabeth Schmidt.
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Analyzes the literary trends of the American renaissance period and the pivotal works of such writers as Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott, Hawthorne, Poe, Dickinson, and Whitman.
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American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.