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Hardcover One True Theory & the Quest for an American Aesthetic Book

ISBN: 0300122977

ISBN13: 9780300122978

One True Theory & the Quest for an American Aesthetic

Martha Banta reaches across several disciplines to investigate America's early quest to shape an aesthetic equal to the nation's belief in its cultural worth. Marked by an unusually wide-ranging sweep, the book focuses on three major "testing grounds" where nineteenth-century Americans responded to Ralph Waldo Emerson's call to embrace "everything" in order to uncover the theoretical principles underlying "the idea of creation." The interactions...

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