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  1. Transcendentalism and the problem of literary vision in nineteenth-century America
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0817318356; 0817387668; 9780817318352; 9780817387662
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American literature; Figures of speech; Literature and society; Polarity in literature; Realism in literature; Transcendentalism in literature; Transcendentalism (New England); Geschichte; American literature; Transcendentalism in literature; Realism in literature; Figures of speech; Polarity in literature; American literature; Transcendentalism (New England); Literature and society
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    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

    "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"--

  2. Transcendentalism and the problem of literary vision in nineteenth-century America
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  The University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa

    "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"-- more

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    "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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0817387668; 9780817387662
    Subjects: American literature; American literature; Literature and society; Figures of speech; Polarity in literature; Transcendentalism (New England); Transcendentalism in literature; Realism in literature; Transcendentalism in literature; Realism in literature; Figures of speech; Polarity in literature; Transcendentalism (New England); American literature; Literature and society; American literature; Polarity in literature; Realism in literature; Transcendentalism in literature; Transcendentalism (New England); Literatur; Transzendentalismus; Sehen; Realismus; American literature; Figures of speech; Literature and society; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History; LITERARY CRITICISM ; American ; General
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    Introduction: the stare that signalizesEmerson, 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.