TY - BOOK AU - Kohler,Michelle ED - Project Muse. TI - Transcendentalism and the problem of literary vision in nineteenth-century America SN - 9780817387662 AV - PS217.T7 K64 2014 U1 - 810.9/384 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Tuscaloosa PB - The University of Alabama Press KW - Literature and society KW - United States KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Transcendentalism (New England) KW - American literature KW - New England KW - History and criticism KW - Polarity in literature KW - Figures of speech KW - Realism in literature KW - Transcendentalism in literature KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780817387662/ ER -