Transatlantic Transcendentalism

Transatlantic Transcendentalism
Author: Samantha C Harvey
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2016-06-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0748681388

This new study argues that Coleridge was so influential in America because he provided a framework for American intellectuals to address one of the great questions of European Romanticism: what is the relationship between the Romantic triad of nature, spi

Gale Researcher Guide for: Transcendentalist Literature

Gale Researcher Guide for: Transcendentalist Literature
Author: Laura A. Leibman
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 13
Release:
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1535848804

Gale Researcher Guide for: Transcendentalist Literature is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies

Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies
Author: Julia Straub
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 632
Release: 2016-05-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110376733

Transatlantic literary studies have provided important new perspectives on North American, British and Irish literature. They have led to a revision of literary history and the idea of a national literature. They have changed the perception of the Anglo-American literary market and its many processes of transatlantic production, distribution, reception and criticism. Rather than dwelling on comparisons or engaging with the notion of ‘influence,’ transatlantic literary studies seek to understand North American, British and Irish literature as linked with each other by virtue of multi-layered historical and cultural ties and pay special attention to the many refractions and mutual interferences that have characterized these traditions since colonial times. This handbook brings together articles that summarize some of the crucial transatlantic concepts, debates and topics. The contributions contained in this volume examine periods in literary and cultural history, literary movements, individual authors as well as genres from a transatlantic perspective, combining theoretical insight with textual analysis.

Henry David Thoreau in Context

Henry David Thoreau in Context
Author: James S. Finley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 655
Release: 2017-04-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108500978

Well known for his contrarianism and solitude, Henry David Thoreau was nonetheless deeply responsive to the world around him. His writings bear the traces of his wide-ranging reading, travels, political interests, and social influences. Henry David Thoreau in Context brings together leading scholars of Thoreau and nineteenth-century American literature and culture and presents original research, valuable synthesis of historical and scholarly sources, and innovative readings of Thoreau's texts. Across thirty-four chapters, this collection reveals a Thoreau deeply concerned with and shaped by a diverse range of environments, intellectual traditions, social issues, and modes of scientific practice. Essays also illuminate important posthumous contexts and consider the specific challenges of contextualizing Thoreau today. This collection provides a rich understanding of Thoreau and nineteenth-century American literature, political activism, and environmentalist thinking that will be a vital resource for students, teachers, scholars, and general readers.

Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism

Toward a Female Genealogy of Transcendentalism
Author: Jana L. Argersinger
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2014
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0820343390

The first large-scale, collaborative study of women's voices and their vital role in the American transcendentalist movement. Many of its seventeen distinguished scholars work from newly recovered archives, and all offer fresh readings of understudied topics and texts, shedding light on female contributions.

Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies

Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary Studies
Author: Leslie Eckel
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2016-09-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1474418287

New and original collection of scholarly essays examining the literary complexities of the Atlantic world systemThis Companion offers a critical overview of the diverse and dynamic field of Atlantic literary studies, with contributions by distinguished scholars on a series of topics that define the area. The essays focus on literature and culture from first contact to the present, exploring fruitful Atlantic connections across space and time, across national cultures, and embracing literature, culture and society. This research collection proposes that the analysis of literature and culture does not depend solely upon geographical setting to uncover textual meaning. Instead, it offers Atlantic connections based around migration, race, gender and sexuality, ecologies, and other significant ideological crossovers in the Atlantic World. The result is an exciting new critical map written by leading international researchers of a lively and expanding field. Key FeaturesOffers an introduction to the growing field of Atlantic literary studies by showcasing current work engaged in debate around historical, cultural and literary issues in the Atlantic WorldIncludes 26 newly-commissioned scholarly essays by leading experts in Atlantic literary studiesFuses breadth of historical knowledge with depth of literary scholarshipConsiders the full range of intercultural encounters around and across the Atlantic Ocean

Nature and Literary Studies

Nature and Literary Studies
Author: Peter Remien
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 771
Release: 2022-08-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1108877877

Nature and Literary Studies supplies a broad and accessible overview of one of the most important and contested keywords in modern literary studies. Drawing together the work of leading scholars of a variety of critical approaches, historical periods, and cultural traditions, the book examines nature's philosophical, theological, and scientific origins in literature, as well as how literary representations of this concept evolved in response to colonialism, industrialization, and new forms of scientific knowledge. Surveying nature's diverse applications in twenty-first-century literary studies and critical theory, the volume seeks to reconcile nature's ideological baggage with its fundamental role in fostering appreciation of nonhuman being and agency. Including chapters on wilderness, pastoral, gender studies, critical race theory, and digital literature, the book is a key resource for students and professors seeking to understand nature's role in the environmental humanities.

Handbook of American Romanticism

Handbook of American Romanticism
Author: Philipp Löffler
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2021-07-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110592231

The Handbook of American Romanticism presents a comprehensive survey of the various schools, authors, and works that constituted antebellum literature in the United States. The volume is designed to feature a selection of representative case studies and to assess them within two complementary frameworks: the most relevant historical, political, and institutional contexts of the antebellum decades and the consequent (re-)appropriations of the Romantic period by academic literary criticism in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.