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Emerson's Sublime Science

Emerson's Sublime Science

Hardcover

Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories

Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0333718925
ISBN13: 9780333718926
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Feb 2 1999
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.63 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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