Literary transcendentalism
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978-0-8014-9152-8
LITERARY TRANSCENDENTALISM
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Introduction
PART I. BACKGROUND AND GENERAL PRINCIPLES
1 The Emergence of the Transcendentalist Aesthetic from American Unitarianism
2 Transcendentalist Literary Method: Inspiration versus Craftsmanship
PART II. THE LIVING WORD
3 From Conversation to Essay
4 From Sermon to Scripture
PART III. WORD AND WORLD: NATURE AS A MODEL FOR LITERARY FORM
5 Emerson and the Idea of Microcosmic Form
6 Catalogue Rhetoric
7 Thoreau and the Literary Excursion
8 Thoreau's A Week
9 Ellery Channing: The Major Phase of a Minor Poet
PART IV. THE FIRST PERSON
10. Transcendentalist Self-Examination and Autobiographical Tradition
11. Emerson and Thoreau: Soul versus Self
12. Transcendental Egoism in Very and Whitman
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