Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville by David S. Reynolds

Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville

David S. Reynolds

640 pages • first pub 1988 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging reflective slow-paced
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In this landmark work, the seven great writers of the American Renaissance--Emerson, Thoreau, Writman, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson--are examined together in their cultural contexts. David Reynolds reveals how these authors broadly ass...

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