Transcendentalism and the problem of literary vision in nineteenth-century America / Michelle Kohler.

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Kohler, Michelle, 1974-

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TextPublisher: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, 2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0817387668
9780817387662

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

810.9/384 23

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PS217.T7 K64 2014

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Contents:

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.

Summary: "Miles of Stare explores the problem of nineteenth-century American literary vision: the strange conflation of visible reality and poetic language that emerges repeatedly in the metaphors and literary creations of American Transcendentalists"-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Miles of Stare explores the problem of nineteenth-century American literary vision: the strange conflation of visible reality and poetic language that emerges repeatedly in the metaphors and literary creations of American Transcendentalists"-- Provided by publisher.

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