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The American Renaissance (Bloom's Period Studies)

By Harold Bloom

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
0791076768, 9780791076767, 0791079872, 9780791079874, 1438114915, 9781438114910
LCC
PS211 .A8 2003
Open Library ID
OL3678782M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1931141 bytes)
Pages
350\379
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Ralph Waldo Emerson's transcendental writings influenced Henry David Thoreau and Walt Whitman, whose works are considered the cornerstones of the American literary movement. This title, The American Renaissance, part of Chelsea House Publishers' Bloom's Period Studies series, features a selection of critical essays analyzing the writers and works that defined the American Renaissance. In addition to a chronology of the important cultural, literary, and politcal events that shaped this period, this text includes an introduction and editor's note written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

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