Emerson's Sublime Science

1999
ISBN: 978-0-333-71892-6
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 416 g

Reihe: Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilson, E.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Eric Wilson is Associate Professor of English at Wake Forest University.