The Postcolonial and Imperial Experience in American Transcendentalism
Description
Analyses literary representations of the American experience in selected works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. Reveals the ambivalence that underlay the cultural and political development of the United States as a former colony.
Keywords
Literary CriticismAmericanModern19th CenturySocial ScienceAnthropologyCultural & SocialSemiotics & TheoryFictionLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & Comparative
2012Book
Author(s)Marek Paryż
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9780230338746
LanguageEnglish
