Emerson's Sublime Science

Emerson's Sublime Science

Author: E. Wilson

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1999-02-02

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0230389716

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Emerson's Sublime Science explores relationships among Emerson's poetics, theory of the sublime, and engagement with electromagnetism. The book illustrates how Davy's chemistry and Faraday's physics revealed to Emerson a sublime universe in which matter is boundless electrical force. It argues that Emerson translated this discovery into a sublime writing style crafted to galvanize readers with the insight that matter is energy. In illuminating Emerson's project, this study also uncovers connections among British Romanticism, American Romanticism, and nineteenth-century science.


Emerson's Nonlinear Nature

Emerson's Nonlinear Nature

Author: Christopher J. Windolph

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 0826265995

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"Examines Emersonian naturalism from the standpoint of nonlinearity, offering new ways of reading and thinking about Emerson's stance toward nature and the influence of science on his thought. Windolph breaks new ground by exploring how considerations of shape and the act of seeing underpin all of Emerson's theories about nature"--Provided by publisher.


Romantic Turbulence

Romantic Turbulence

Author: NA NA

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-30

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1349626791

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Eric Wilson reveals a neglected yet powerful current in several major Romantic figures: the affirmation of - not escape from - turbulence. Romantic Turbulence unearths the chaotic undercurrents of European Romanticism found in Goethe s science and Schelling s philosophy, and demonstrates how these tendencies agitate the texts of Emerson, Fuller, Melville, Thoreau, and Whitman. These writers see the universe not as a reflection of transcendent harmony or a system of predictable laws but rather as a convergence of chaos and order, a polarized field. Detailing this undulatory cosmos, Wilson shows how these American Romantics participate in its unsettling rhythms by practicing an ecological poetics, translating the energies of their habitat into living compositions.


Emerson's Life in Science

Emerson's Life in Science

Author: Laura Dassow Walls

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-05-31

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1501717391

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Ralph Waldo Emerson has traditionally been cast as a dreamer and a mystic, concerned with the ideals of transcendentalism rather than the realities of contemporary science and technology. In Laura Dassow Walls's view Emerson was a leader of the secular avant-garde in his day. He helped to establish science as the popular norm of truth in America and to modernize American popular thought. In addition, he became a hero to a post-Darwinian generation of Victorian Dissenters, exemplifying the strong connection between transcendentalism and later nineteenth-century science.In his early years as a minister, Emerson read widely in natural philosophy (or physics), chemistry, geology, botany, and comparative anatomy. When he left the church, it was to seek the truths written in the book of nature rather than in books of scripture. While visiting the Paris Museum of Natural History during his first European tour, Emerson experienced a revelation so intense that he declared, "I will be a naturalist." Once he was back in the United States, his first step in realizing this ambition was to deliver a series of lectures on natural science. These lectures formed the basis for his first publication, Nature (1836), and his writings ever after reflected his intense and continuing interest in science.Walls finds that Emerson matured just as the concept of "the two cultures" emerged, when the disciplines of literature and science were divorcing each other even as he called repeatedly for their marriage. Consequently, Walls writes, half of Emerson's thought has been invisible to us: science was central to Emerson, to his language, to the basic organization of his career. In Emerson's Life in Science, she makes the case that no study of literary history can be complete without embracing science as part of literature. Conversely, she maintains, no history of science is complete unless we consider the role played by writers of literature who helped to install science in the popular imagination.


Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

Author: Harold Bloom

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0791093484

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Henry David Thoreau was a naturalist, transcendentalist, philosopher, and essayist. His views on civil disobedience and nature have become a part of the American character. This updated volume of the Bloom's Modern Critical Views series is a keenly detailed chronicle of the great thinker who will forever be known for his experiment in simple living documented in his work Walden.


Emerson for the Twenty-first Century

Emerson for the Twenty-first Century

Author: Barry Tharaud

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 623

ISBN-13: 0874130913

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While previous collections of Emerson essays have tended to be a sort of 'stock-taking' or 'retrospective' look at Emerson scholarship, this collection follows a more 'prospective' trajectory for Emerson studies based on the recent increase in global perspectives in nearly all fields of humanistic studies.


Emerson's Sublime Science

Emerson's Sublime Science

Author: Eric Wilson

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780312217754

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He wished to galvanize his readers, to shock them into an awareness of nature's animating energies. Offering new perspectives on Emerson's Romanticism, the study also uncovers provocative connections among science, aesthetics, and poetics.


Emerson in Context

Emerson in Context

Author: Wesley Mott

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1107028019

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This collection explores the many intellectual and social contexts in which Emerson lived, thought and wrote.


Emerson's Memory Loss

Emerson's Memory Loss

Author: Christopher Hanlon

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0190842520

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Introduction: Recalling Emerson -- Emerson's memory loss -- Knowing by heart -- Streams of thought -- Coda: Inside information