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A critical re-evaluation of the imaginative transformations of Romanticism by major American writers
This book provides innovative readings of literary works of British Romanticism and its influence on twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literary culture and thought. It traverses the traditional critical boundaries of prose and poetry in American and Romantic and post-Romantic writing. Analysing significant works by nineteenth-century writers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Emily Dickinson, as well as the contemporary writings of William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison and Wallace Stevens, the book reasserts the significance of second-generation Romantic writers for American literary culture. Sandy reassesses our understanding of Romantic inheritance and influence on post-Romantic aesthetics, subjectivity and the natural world in the American imagination.
Contents
AcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations
I. Imagining Nature1. Introduction: Reflections on Transatlantic Exchanges, Subjectivity and Nature2. Romantic Influence and Nature Reconsidered: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
II. Romantic Transactions: Subjects in Nature3. Dissolving Subjectivities: Imagined Selves in F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Keats4. Ghostly Selves, Light and Nature in William Faulkner: Wordsworthian Shadows and Byronic Shades
III. Romantic Transformations: Fictional Selves and Nature5. Fictions of the Self and Nature: Reading Romanticism in Saul Bellow6. Re-Imagined Pastoral Poetics: Narrative Structures and the Environment in Toni Morrison and William WordsworthCoda: Nature without Self: Beauty, Death and Subjectivity in the Poetics of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens
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