Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville

by David S. Reynolds

Book Overview

In this landmark work, the seven great writers of the "American Renaissance"--Emerson, Thoreau, Writman, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson--are examined together in their cultural contexts.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674065654
• ISBN13: 9780674065659
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 2.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

New Perspective on American Classic Literary Tradition

Truly well-thought, researched, and rendered. Reynolds grounds his literary analysis in a vivid sense of the transition from the Republic toward the corporate industrial era, explicating the dynamics of our vital tradition.