Transcendentalism and the problem of literary vision in nineteenth-century America [electronic resource] / Michelle Kohler.
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TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2014. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN: - 9780817387662
- 0817387668
- Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Transcendentalism (New England)
- American literature -- New England -- History and criticism -- 19th century
- Polarity in literature
- Figures of speech
- Realism in literature
- Transcendentalism in literature
- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- 810.9/384 23
- PS217.T7 K64 2014
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.
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