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American renaissance: art and expression in the age of Emerson and Whitman

Matthiessen, F. O. (Francis Otto), 1902-1950.

Year: 1941.

Publisher: Oxford University Press.

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Frontmatter

BOOK ONE: FROM EMERSON TO THOREAU

I. IN THE OPTATIVE MOOD

1. Consciousness

2. Eloquence

3. Expression

4. The Word One with the Thing

5. 'The light of the body is the eye'

6. A Few Herbs and Apples

7. The Flowing

8. Self-Portrait of Saadi

II. THE ACTUAL GLORY

1. Expected Unexpectedness

2. What Music Shall We Have?

3. Thinking in Images

III. THE METAPHYSICAL STRAIN

1. Man Thinking

2. The Mingling of Walden and Ganges

3. Ishmael's Loom of Time

IV. THE ORGANIC PRINCIPLE

1. From Coleridge to Emerson

2. Horatio Greenough

3. Thoreau

4. New England Landscapes

5. Walden: Craftsmanship vs. Technique

BOOK TWO: HAWTHORNE

V. THE VISION OF EVIL

VI. PROBLEM OF THE ARTIST AS NEW ENGLANDER

1. Starting Point

2. The First Tales

3. 'To open an intercourse with the world'

4. The Haunted Mind

VII. ALLEGORY AND SYMBOLISM

Theory

1. The American Bias and Background

2. The Imagination as Mirror

3. The Crucial Definition of Romance

Practice

1. The Scarlet Letter

2. From 'Young Goodman Brown' to 'The Whiteness of the Whale'

3. Hawthorne and James

4. Hawthorne and Milton

Coda

VIII. A DARK NECESSITY

1. Hawthorne's Politics, with the Economic Structure of The Seven Gables

2. Hawthorne's Psychology: The Acceptance of Good and Evil

3. From Hawthorne to James to Eliot

BOOK THREE: MELVILLE

IX. MOMENT OF TRANSITION

1. 'Out of unhandselled savage nature'

2. Mardi: A Source-Book for Plenitude

3. Autobiography and Art

X. THE REVENGER'S TRAGEDY

1. The Economic Factor

2. 'The world's a ship on its passage out'

3. Structure

4. 'A bold and nervous lofty language'

5. The Matching of the Forces

6. The Fate of the Ungodly God-like Man

7. The Levels Beyond

XI. THE TROUBLED MIND

XII. REASSERTION OF THE HEART

1. An Alien to His Contemporaries

2. Billy Budd, Foretopman

BOOK FOUR: WHITMAN

XIII. ONLY A LANGUAGE EXPERIMENT

1. 'Words! book-words! what are you?'

2. Vision and Attitude

3. Three Analogies for a Poem

Oratory

The Opera

The Ocean

4. 'Rhythm in its last ruggedness and decomposition'

5. 'Landscapes projected masculine, full-sized and golden'

The Genre Painting of W.S. Mount

The Realism of Millet and of Eakins

'And what shall the pictures be that I hang on the walls?'

XIV. MAN IN THE OPEN AIR

1. The Need for Mythology

2. Representative Men

3. American Demigods

4. Full Circle

CHRONOLOGY

INDEX

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Title:

American renaissance : art and expression in the age of Emerson and Whitman F.O. Matthiessen.

Author:

Matthiessen, F. O. (Francis Otto), 1902-1950

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American renaissance : art and expression in the age of Emerson and Whitman F.O. Matthiessen.
Matthiessen, F. O. (Francis Otto), 1902-1950
London: Oxford University Press, 1941.

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