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Miles of stare : transcendentalism and the problem of literary vision in nineteenth-century America
- Title
- Miles of stare : transcendentalism and the problem of literary vision in nineteenth-century America / Michelle Kohler.
- Author
- Kohler, Michelle, 1974-
- Publication
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2014]
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Details
- Description
- x, 227 pages; 24 cm
- 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" --
- Subjects
- American literature > New England > History and criticism > 19th century
- Transcendentalism in literature
- Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century
- Transcendentalism (New England)
- American literature > 19th century > History and criticism
- Figures of speech
- Realism in literature
- Polarity in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-3870
- ISBN
- 9780817318352 (trade cloth : alk. paper)
- 0817318356 (trade cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780817387662 (e book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013046286
- OCLC
- 869548836
- Author
- Kohler, Michelle, 1974- author.
- Title
- Miles of stare : transcendentalism and the problem of literary vision in nineteenth-century America / Michelle Kohler.
- Publisher
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-3870