Solitude and Society in the Works of Herman Melville and Edith Wharton

by Linda Costanzo Cahir

The interplay between solitude and society was a particularly persistent theme in nineteenth-century American literature, though writers approached this theme in different ways. Poe explored the metaphysical significance of isolation and held solitude in high esteem; Hawthorne viewed the theme in moral terms and examined the obligation of each individual to the larger community; and Emerson maintained that the contradictory states of self-reliance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313304076
• ISBN13: 9780313304071
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"