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Emersonian Circles and the Southern Hemisphere

Emersonian Circles and the Southern Hemisphere

Engels, Ryland

Hardcover

Series: Interventions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, Book 17

Literary CriticismFiction Anthologies

PREORDER - Expected ship date April 30, 2027

ISBN10: 1399560352
ISBN13: 9781399560351
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Apr 30 2027
Pages: 216
Language: English
Emersonian Circles demonstrates the often-overlooked importance of the Southern Hemisphere in the nineteenth century as a region of enormous creative activity and as a voracious audience for foreign literature. It focuses on the US Transcendentalists, and their relationship - directly and indirectly - with writers in Latin America, Southern Africa and Australia. It reconsiders canonical American figures, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau, arguing that the Southern Hemisphere was essential to their understanding of the world and presents a broader transnational appreciation of writers often confined to Western, Northern or Transatlantic frameworks. Equally, it provides the first study of how several nineteenth-century communities south of the equator adapted Transcendentalism to suit local needs, contending that a double-sided account of these interactions can enrich our interpretations of both US and world literary texts, enabling new approaches to be taken on questions of race, settler colonialism, Romantic nationalism and globalisation.

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