The American Renaissance: New DimensionsHarry Raphael Garvin, Peter C. Carafiol The contributors to this anthology are mindful of the weight of traditional problems of interpretive authority in American literature. Their critical approaches to Poe, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Emerson, and Whitman reveal the value of accommodation between traditional American literary scholarship and recent theoretical methods. |
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Notes on Contributors | 7 |
Interpretation and Intuition | 21 |
Emersons Sublime Analysis JULIE ELLISON | 42 |
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Alice Doane's Appeal American literary American literature American Renaissance appears authority becomes Biblical civil claim Concord consciousness Cotton Mather cultural Dauber death deixis desire Dial discourse divine Dupin Emerson essay eternal Ethan Brand fact fantastic Gothic Hawthorne Hawthorne's heart Henry David Thoreau higher criticism historian human identity imagination influence interpretation intuitive apprehension Jesus Journal landscape Leaves of Grass letter Ligeia Mad Trist meaning Merrimack Rivers mind moral Morella's narrative narrator narrator's Nathaniel Hawthorne Natural History nineteenth-century observation Parker's account Parker's sermon passage past permanent Poe's poem poet poetic poetry present Ralph Waldo Emerson reader reading religion repetition representativeness reveals revisionism rhetorical Romantic Salem scene seems sense signum diaboli society soul spirit story sublime theory Thoreau tion tradition transcendental Transcendentalist transient notions true truth of Christianity turn uncivil University Press Unpardonable Unpardonable Sin vestige vision voice Walt Whitman Whitman witches words writing