American renaissance

art and expression in the age of Emerson and Whitman

Autor*innen

• F. O. Matthiessen

Parameter

• Renaissance

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This text has taken its place as the definitive treatment of the most distinguished age of American literature. Centering the discussion around five literary giants of the mid-nineteenth century-Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman. Matthiessen elucidates their conceptions of the nature and function of literature, and the extent to which these were realized in their writings.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1968