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In respect to egotism : studies in American Romantic writing
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- Creator
- Joel Porte
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- Language
- English
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- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 316 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780521362733, 0521362733
- OCLC
- ocm23016025
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-303) and index.
- "Where...is this singular career to terminate?" : bewildered Pilgrims in early American fiction -- "Where there is no vision, the people perish..." : prophets and pariahs in the forest of the New World -- Poe : romantic center, critical margin -- Emerson : experiments in self-creation -- Hawthorne : "The obscurest man of letters in America" -- Thoreau's self-perpetuating artifacts -- Melville : romantic cock-and-bull, or, the great art of telling the truth -- Douglass and Stowe : scriptures of the redeemed self -- Whitman : "Take me as I am or not at all..." -- Interchapter : Walt and Emily -- Dickinson's "celestial vail" : snowbound in self-consciousness