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A critical re-evaluation of the imaginative transformations of Romanticism by major American writers The study traverses the traditional critical boundaries of prose and poetry in American and Romantic and Post-Romantic writing Reasserts the significance of Second-Generation Romantic writers for American literary culture Reassessing the indebtedness of major American writers to British Romanticism 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 later 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.

Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism: Aesthetics, Subjectivity and the Environment

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    Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
    Publication Date: 26/01/2023
    ISBN13: 9781399508360, 978-1399508360
    ISBN10: 1399508369

    Number of Pages: 200

    Non Fiction , ELT & Literary Studies , Education

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    A critical re-evaluation of the imaginative transformations of Romanticism by major American writers The study traverses the traditional critical boundaries of prose and poetry in American and Romantic and Post-Romantic writing Reasserts the significance of Second-Generation Romantic writers for American literary culture Reassessing the indebtedness of major American writers to British Romanticism 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 later 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.

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