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Transcendentalism and the problem of literary vision in Nineteenth-Century America [electronic resource] / Michelle Kohler

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Kohler, Michelle, 1974-
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Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2014]
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x, 227 pages ; 24 cm
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Contents
Introduction: the stare that signalizes -- Emerson, transcendentalism, and the problem of literary vision -- Doomed to be a witness: the authority of ineluctable vision in Douglass's slave narratives -- Dim optics: privacy, access, and the reluctant seer in Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables -- Scarce opon my eyes: fleeting visions and the epistemology of metaphor in Dickinson's poetry -- To arrange a perspective: Howells, Jewett, and the provoked eye of realism -- Conclusion.
Summary
"Miles of Stare explores the problem of nineteenth-century American literary vision: the strange conflation of visible reality and poetic language that emerges repeatedly in the metaphors and literary creations of American Transcendentalists" --
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ISBN
9780817318352 (trade cloth : alk. paper)
9780817387662 (e book)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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