Consciousness and culture : Emerson and Thoreau reviewed /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Porte, Joel
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2004]
Subjects:	Emerson, Ralph Waldo, > 1803-1882 > Criticism and interpretation. Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862 > Criticism and interpretation. National characteristics, American, in literature. New England > Intellectual life > 19th century. Consciousness in literature. Culture in literature.
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Table of Contents:

Emerson, Thoreau, and the double consciousness
Transcendental antics
The problem of Emerson
Representing America
Emerson as journalist
Emerson at Harvard
Holmes's Emerson
Emerson's French connection
Henry Thoreau and the Reverend Poluphloisboios Thalassa
Society and solitude
"God himself culminates in the present moment" : thoughts on Thoreau's faith
"In wildness is the preservation of the world" : the natural history of Henry David Thoreau
Writing and reading New Englandly.
Emerson, Thoreau, and the double consciousness
Transcendental antics
The problem of Emerson
Representing America
Emerson as journalist
Emerson at Harvard
Holmes's Emerson
Emerson's French connection
Henry Thoreau and the Reverend Polupholoisboios Thalassa
Society and solitude
"God himself culminates in the present moment" : thoughts on Thoreau's faith
"In wildness is the preservation of the world" : the natural history of Henry David Thoreau
Writing and reading New Englandly.