The Complicity of Imagination The American Renaissance, Contests of Authority, and Seventeenth-Century English Culture
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Cambridge studies in American Literature and Culture
- Introduction: Antebellum America and the Culture of Seventeenth-Century England
- 1 Cultural Predicaments and Authorial Responses
- 2 “A Seraph's Elequence” Emerson's Inspired Language and Milton's Apocalyptic Prose
- 3 Margaret Fuller's “The Two Herberts,” Emerson, and the Disavowal of Sequestered Virtue
- 4 “As if a green bough were laid across the page”: Thoreau's Seventeenth-Century Landscapes and Extravagant Personae
- 5 Melville's Mardi and Moby-Dick, Marvelous Travel Narratives, and Seventeenth-Century Methods of Inquiry
- 6 Surmising the Infidel: Melville Reads Milton
- Notes
- Index
- Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Cambridge studies in American Literature and Culture
- Introduction: Antebellum America and the Culture of Seventeenth-Century England
- 1 Cultural Predicaments and Authorial Responses
- 2 “A Seraph's Elequence” Emerson's Inspired Language and Milton's Apocalyptic Prose
- 3 Margaret Fuller's “The Two Herberts,” Emerson, and the Disavowal of Sequestered Virtue
- 4 “As if a green bough were laid across the page”: Thoreau's Seventeenth-Century Landscapes and Extravagant Personae
- 5 Melville's Mardi and Moby-Dick, Marvelous Travel Narratives, and Seventeenth-Century Methods of Inquiry
- 6 Surmising the Infidel: Melville Reads Milton
- Notes
- Index
- Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
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- The Complicity of ImaginationThe American Renaissance, Contests of Authority, and Seventeenth-Century English Culture, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1997