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It is hard to deny the enormous impact of Wordsworth's writing upon the literary and cultural world that followed him. This new collection of specially-commissioned essays provides the most complete picture yet to be produced of the influence of William Wordsworth's writing upon major American writers of the nineteenth century, such as Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman, Melville, Dickinson and others. In addition to providing a thorough account of Wordsworth's influence on American literature, this collection also seeks to address the poet's influence on American culture, from religious reform to civic humanism, and in so doing hints at a new theory of transatlantic influence that accounts for transnational literary as well as cultural exchange. Contributors include James Butler, Elizabeth Fay, Stephen Gill, Susan Manning and Adam Potkay, amongst others.
Contents
List of Figures Foreword; S. Gill Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements A Note on the Texts Introduction: Wordsworth's American Legacy; J.Pace & M.Scott 'Grounds for Comparison': The Place of Style in Transatlantic Romanticism; S.Manning The Wordsworthian Metamorphosis of Natty Bumppo; R.Gravil Discord at Pennacook: Whittier and the Problem of American Picturesque; B.Graver Transatlantic Gothic and Race: Wordsworth, Hawthorne, Poe, Chopin, Cable and Chesnutt; J.Pace Wordsworth and Bishop Doane: High-Church Romanticism on the Delaware; A.Potkay Henry David Thoreau as Wordsworthian Poet ; L.Newman Intimations of Imitation: Wordsworth, Whitman and the Emergence of Leaves of Grass; K.Karbiener The Wordsworthian Cast of Dickinson's Romantic Heritage; R.E.Brantley Wordsworth, Bostonian Chivalry and the Uses of Art; E.Fay Home (At Grasmere and 'On the Range'): Wordsworth and Owen Wister's The Virginian ; J.A.Butler An Ethics of Wonder and the Cure of Poetry: Wordsworth, William James and the American Reader; M.Scott Index
