The Romantic Foundations of the American Renaissance

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Cornell University Press, 15 may 2019 - 448 páginas

The Romantic Foundations of the American Renaissance illuminates the process by which the cultural legacy of European Romanticism was assimilated by and transformed in the literature of mid-nineteenth-century America. Leon Chai traces the development various governing concepts or tendencies from their genesis in British, French, and German Romantic traditions through their subsequent appropriation by such American writers as Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville. Among the topics he addresses are the shift from allegory to symbolism; selected trends in Romantic science; the secularization of religion; the emergence of a historical consciousness and a philosophy of history; pantheism; the relation of subjectivity to objectivity in Romantic philosophy; and Romantic poets.

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Introduction
1
PART I FROM ALLEGORY TO SYMBOLISM
15
PART II THE FOUNDATIONS OF SCIENCE
101
PART III THE SECULARIZATION OF RELIGION
167
PART IV THE HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS
245
PART V PANTHEISM
271
PART VI SUBJECTIVITY AND OBJECTIVITY
329
PART VII POETICS
365
THE QUESTION OF REPRESENTATION
403
Primary Sources
425
Index
431

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Leon Chai is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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