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

625 pages first pub 1988 (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 as...

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