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· 분류 : 외국도서 > 소설/시/희곡 > 문학비평 > 미국
· ISBN : 9780521110006
· 쪽수 : 336쪽
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Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Writing, reading, Romanticism; 1. 'Where…Is this singular career to terminate?': Bewildered pilgrims in early American fiction; 2. 'Where there is no vision, the people perish…': Prophets and Pariahs in the Forest of the New World; 3. Poe: Romantic centre, critical margin; 4. Emerson: experiments in self-creation; 5. Hawthorne: 'The obscurest man of letters in America'; 6. Thoreau's self-perpetuating artefacts; 7. Melville: Romantic cock-and-bull; or, the great art of telling the truth; 8. Douglass and Stowe: scriptures of the redeemed self; 9. Whitman: 'Take me as I am or not at all…'; Interchapter: Walt and Emily; 10. Dickinson's 'Celestial vail': snowbound in self-consciousness; Notes; Index.