The complicity of imagination : the American renaissance, contests of authority, and seventeenth-century English culture / by Grey, Robin

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The complicity of imagination : the American renaissance, contests of authority, and seventeenth-century English culture / by Grey, Robin

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Antebellum America and the culture of seventeenth-century England -- Cultural predicaments and authorial responses -- "A seraph's eloquence": Emerson's inspired language and Milton's apocalyptic prose -- Margaret Fuller's "The Two Herberts," Emerson, and the disavowal of sequestered virtue -- "As if a green bough were laid across the page": Thoreau's seventeenth-century landscapes and extravagant personae -- Melville's Mardi and Moby-Dick, marvelous travel narratives, and seventeenth-century methods of inquiry -- Surmising the infidel: Melville reads Milton.…”
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