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LEADER: 01985cam a2200385 a 4500
001 2006022702
003 DLC
005 20070425082403.0
008 060710s2006 ctua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2006022702
020 $a0974115894 (alk. paper)
020 $a9780974115894
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm70407755
035 $a(OCoLC)70407755
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dYDX$dBAKER$dYDXCP$dDLC
050 00 $aPS217.T7$bS74 2006
082 00 $a810.9/384$222
100 1 $aSpecq, Francois,$d1965-
245 10 $aTranscendence :$bseekers and seers in the age of Thoreau /$cby Francois Specq.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aHigganum, CT :$bHigganum Hill Books,$cc2006.
300 $aix, 229 p. :$bill. ;$c22 cm.
440 0 $aDirections 21 book
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 215-222) and index.
505 0 $aFrederic Church's America -- Thoreau's "Chesuncook" -- Thoreau's flowering of facts and the truth of experience -- Dwelling and labyrinth in Thoreau's journal -- "Losing sight of oneself in what one sees": nature writing and Thoreau's journal -- Emerson's literary ethics -- Emerson's rhetoric of empowerment -- "Truth comes in with darkness": transparence and opacity in "The piazza" -- Prophecy and the grotesque in "The encantadas" -- Melville's dream -- Quest for the sublime and rhetoric of empire in Bradford's Arctic regions.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aTranscendentalism (New England)
650 0 $aSpirituality in literature.
650 0 $aSpirituality in art.
650 0 $aNature in literature.
650 0 $aNature in art.
650 0 $aNature$xReligious aspects.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0617/2006022702.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0664/2006022702-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0664/2006022702-d.html