His chapters on conversation, religious discourse, catalog rhetoric, and literary travelogue treat intensively topics that have been relatively neglected. His second, New England Literary Culture (1986), was a masterful work of literary excavation, mining the archive to develop a thorough account of early U.S. national literature in what was undoubtedly its most …

Literary Transcendentalism. All the movement's major literary figures and forms are considered in detail.Lawrence Buell combines intellectual history and.

This incisive and sympathetic overview of transcendentalist writing and thought will attract readers interested in American culture, and it will suggest new critical approaches to nonfiction.

Publication date 1973 Topics American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism, Transcendentalism (New England), United States -- Intellectual life -- … Broader in scope than any previous literary study of the transcendentalists, this rewarding book analyzes the theories and forms characteristic of a vital group of American writers, as well as the principles and vision underlying transcendentalism. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

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The purpose of this book is to survey the literary art and criticism of the American Transcendentalists and to contribute in the process to a better understanding of the relationship between style and vision in all nonfictional literature. Buell finds that truth and beauty are two sides of the same transcendental coin, and this perception shapes a very fine book.

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This work can be downloaded for non-commercial purposes: 336 Pages Paperback ISBN: 9780801491528 Cornell University Press. Buell's research interests include the following: Rethinking U. S. Literature in a Globalizing World, Discourses of Literature and Environment, Theory of National Fiction, Transmutations of Genre in Anglophone Writing, Literature and/of Friendship. Professor Buell’s first book Literary Transcendentalism (1973) established him as a leading authority on Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transcendentalists. Literary Transcendentalis... by Cornell University Press, Literary Transcendentalism: Style and Vision in the American Renaissance.

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