Romantic Foundations of the American Renaissance
by Leon Chai
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The Romantic Foundations of the American Renaissance illuminates the process by which the cultural legacy of European Romanticism was assimilated by and transformed in the literature of mid-nineteenth-century America. Leon Chai traces the development various governing concepts or tendencies from their genesis in British, French, and German Romantic traditions through their subsequent appropriation by such American writers as Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville. Among the topics he show more addresses are the shift from allegory to symbolism; selected trends in Romantic science; the secularization of religion; the emergence of a historical consciousness and a philosophy of history; pantheism; the relation of subjectivity to objectivity in Romantic philosophy; and Romantic poets. show lessTags
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- 810.9 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American literature in English History and criticism of American literature
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- PS217 .R6 .C43 — Language and Literature American literature American literature By period 19th century
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