Complicity of Imagination - The American Renaissance, Contests of Authority, Seventeenth Century

Klappentext An intertextual study of nineteenth-century literature and seventeenth-century culture. Zusammenfassung The Complicity of Imagination examines the relationship between four nineteenth-century authors and the culture and politics of seventeenth-century England. This 1997 book demonstrates how literary texts participate in the artistic! political and theological tensions within American culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Cultural predicaments and authorial responses; 2. A Seraph's Eloquence: Emerson's inspired language and Milton's apocalyptic prose; 3. Margaret Fuller's The Two Herberts: Emerson and the disavowal of sequestered virtue; 4. As If a Green Bough were Laid Across the Page: Thoreau's seventeenth-century landscapes and extravagant personae; 5. Melville's Mardi and Moby-Dick: marvelous travel narratives, and seventeenth-century methods of inquiry; 6. Surmising the infidel: Melville reads Milton.

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• Autori: Robin Grey
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 19.03.2009
• EAN: 9780521105545
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10554-5
• Pagine: 312
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in American; Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; USA, England, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, United Kingdom, Great Britain, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1600 To C 1700