American Impersonal : essays with Sharon Cameron / edited by Branka Arsić

"American Impersonal brings together some of the most influential scholars now working in American literature to explore the impact of one of America's leading literary critics: Sharon Cameron. It engages directly with certain arguments that Cameron has articulated throughout her career, m...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Other Authors: Arsić, Branka (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
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Table of Contents:
  • Being singularly impersonal: Jonathan Edwards and the aesthetics of consent / James D. Lilley
  • Melville's creatures, or seeing otherwise / Colin Dayan
  • On ecstasy: Sharon Cameron's reading of Emerson / Paul Grimstad
  • The recognition of Emerson's impersonal: reading alternatives in Sharon Cameron / Johannes Voelz
  • On the matter of thinking: Margaret Fuller's beautiful work / Vesna Kuiken
  • Thoreau's journal: reading nature / George Kateb
  • What music shall we have? Thoreau on the aesthetics and politics of listening / Branka Arsic
  • Hawthorne's fictional commitments: the early tales / Kerry Larson
  • Hawthorne's rage: on form and the dharma / Theo Davis
  • Formal, new, and relational aesthetics: Dickinson's multitexts / Shira Wolosky
  • Beyond sense: portraits and objects in Henry James's late writings / Michael Moon
  • Believing in "Maud-Evelyn": Henry James and the obligation to ghosts / Shari Goldberg
  • The ends of imagination: Stevens's impersonal / Mark Noble