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Klappentext Joel Porte offers a timely reassessment of nineteenth-century literature! focusing on the general question of the American Romantic ego. Zusammenfassung Throughout this important 1991 study of American Romanticism Professor Porte offers provocative reassessments of familiar and less familiar texts. Throughout this important new study of American Romanticism Professor Porte offers provocative reassessments of familiar and less familiar texts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Writing, reading, Romanticism; 1. 'Where...Is this singular career to terminate?': Bewildered pilgrims in early American fiction; 2. 'Where there is no vision, the people perish...': Prophets and Pariahs in the Forest of the New World; 3. Poe: Romantic centre, critical margin; 4. Emerson: experiments in self-creation; 5. Hawthorne: 'The obscurest man of letters in America'; 6. Thoreau's self-perpetuating artefacts; 7. Melville: Romantic cock-and-bull; or, the great art of telling the truth; 8. Douglass and Stowe: scriptures of the redeemed self; 9. Whitman: 'Take me as I am or not at all...'; Interchapter: Walt and Emily; 10. Dickinson's 'Celestial vail': snowbound in self-consciousness; Notes; Index.
