Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville after the American Renaissance
by
Martin Kevorkian
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Writing beyond Prophecy offers a new interpretation of the American Renaissance by drawing attention to a cluster of later, rarely studied works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. Identifying a line of writing from Emerson's Conduct of Life to Hawthorne's posthumously...