Transcendentalism and the problem of literary vision in nineteenth-century America
Kohler, Michelle, 1974-
Transcendentalism and the problem of literary vision in nineteenth-century America [electronic resource] / Michelle Kohler. - Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780817387662 0817387668
Literature and society--History--United States--19th century.
Transcendentalism (New England)
American literature--History and criticism--New England--19th century.
Polarity in literature.
Figures of speech.
Realism in literature.
Transcendentalism in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Electronic books.
PS217.T7 / K64 2014
810.9/384
Transcendentalism and the problem of literary vision in nineteenth-century America [electronic resource] / Michelle Kohler. - Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780817387662 0817387668
Literature and society--History--United States--19th century.
Transcendentalism (New England)
American literature--History and criticism--New England--19th century.
Polarity in literature.
Figures of speech.
Realism in literature.
Transcendentalism in literature.
American literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Electronic books.
PS217.T7 / K64 2014
810.9/384