E-Book, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Web PDF
Wilson Emerson's Sublime Science
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-230-38971-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Web PDF
Reihe: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
ISBN: 978-0-230-38971-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Emerson's Sublime Science explores relationships among Emerson's poetics, theory of the sublime, and engagement with electromagnetism. The book illustrates how Davy's chemistry and Faraday's physics revealed to Emerson a sublime universe in which matter is boundless electrical force. It argues that Emerson translated this discovery into a sublime writing style crafted to galvanize readers with the insight that matter is energy. In illuminating Emerson's project, this study also uncovers connections among British Romanticism, American Romanticism, and nineteenth-century science.
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Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Poetry Realized in Nature Sublime Science The Hermetic Current Electric Cosmos Electric Words The Electric Field of Nature Scientific Edification Conclusion: Innocence and Experience Notes Index




