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Emerson
"e;An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man,"e; Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote--and in this book, the leading scholar of New England literary culture looks at the …
Dream of the Great American Novel
The first book in many years to take in the full sweep of national fiction, The Dream of the Great American Novel explains why this supposedly antiquated idea continues to thrive. …
Environmental Imagination
With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge Lawrence Buell …
Emerson and Neo-Confucianism
A comparative investigation of Emerson's Transcendental thought and Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism, this book shows how both thinkers traced the human morality to the same source in the …
"e;The Morgesons"e; and Other Writings, Published and Unpublished
"e;Stoddard was, next to Melville and Hawthorne, the most strikingly original voice in the mid-nineteenth-century American novel, a voice . . . that ought to gain a more …
Dream of the Great American Novel
The idea of "e;the great American novel"e; continues to thrive almost as vigorously as in its nineteenth-century heyday, defying 150 years of attempts to dismiss it as …
Literary Transcendentalism
Broader in scope than any previous literary study of the transcendentalists, this rewarding book analyzes the theories and forms characteristic of a vital group of American …
Thoreaus Sense of Place
Recent Thoreau studies have shifted to an emphasis on the green"e; Thoreau, on Thoreau the environmentalist, rooted firmly in particular places and interacting with particular …
Future of Environmental Criticism
Written by one of the world s leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement. A critical summary of the emerging …