Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- In Respect to Egotism
- Introduction: Writing, Reading, Romanticism
- 1 “Where … Is This Singular Career to Terminate?”: Bewildered Pilgrims in Early American Fiction
- 2 “Where There Is No Vision, the People Perish.…”: Prophets and Pariahs in the Forest of the New World
- 3 Poe: Romantic Center, Critical Margin
- 4 Emerson: Experiments in Self-Creation
- 5 Hawthorne: “The Obscurest Man of Letters in America”
- 6 Thoreau's Self-Perpetuating Artifacts
- 7 Melville: Romantic Cock-and-Bull; or, The Great Art of Telling the Truth
- 8 Douglass and Stowe: Scriptures of the Redeemed Self
- 9 Whitman: “Take Me as I Am or Not at All.…”
- Interchapter: Walt and Emily
- 10 Dickinson's “Celestial Vail”: Snowbound in Self-Consciousness
- Notes
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- In Respect to Egotism
- Introduction: Writing, Reading, Romanticism
- 1 “Where … Is This Singular Career to Terminate?”: Bewildered Pilgrims in Early American Fiction
- 2 “Where There Is No Vision, the People Perish.…”: Prophets and Pariahs in the Forest of the New World
- 3 Poe: Romantic Center, Critical Margin
- 4 Emerson: Experiments in Self-Creation
- 5 Hawthorne: “The Obscurest Man of Letters in America”
- 6 Thoreau's Self-Perpetuating Artifacts
- 7 Melville: Romantic Cock-and-Bull; or, The Great Art of Telling the Truth
- 8 Douglass and Stowe: Scriptures of the Redeemed Self
- 9 Whitman: “Take Me as I Am or Not at All.…”
- Interchapter: Walt and Emily
- 10 Dickinson's “Celestial Vail”: Snowbound in Self-Consciousness
- Notes
- Index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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- In Respect to EgotismStudies in American Romantic Writing, pp. xiii - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991