Visibility beyond the visible : the poetic discourse of American transcendentalism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bakracheva, Albena (Author)
Other Authors:	Nikolova, Olga (Translator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English, translated from Bulgarian.
Published:	Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2013.
Series:	Costerus ; new ser., v. 196.
Subjects:	American literature > 19th century > History and criticism. American literature > New England > History and criticism > 19th century. Transcendentalism in literature. Transcendentalism (New England)

Table of Contents:

The New England identity of the term
Puritanism and eighteenth-century rationalism
Unitarianism and transcendentalism
The emphasis on inspiration in transcendental aesthetics
Transcendentalism: poetic-religious practice and way of life
The New England horizons of post-Kantianism: Emerson
The vision of the New England transcendentalist: Thoreau
The enchantment of the voyage back: Margaret Fuller
Traditions and individual talent. Emerson and Thoreau ; Self-reliance ; "Thoreau"
Life as vocation. The harmony with the not-me: A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers ; The artistic harmony: Walden
Homocentrism and ecocentrism.