Umfang:
X, 240 S.
Ausgabe:
1. ed.
ISBN:
9780230338746
Inhalt:
Figures of dependence: exploring the postcolonial in Emerson's selected texts -- Beyond the traveler's testimony: English traits and the construction of postcolonial counter-discourse -- Emerson, New England, and the rhetoric of expansion -- Thoreau's imperial fantasy: Walden versus Robinson Crusoe -- The politics of the genre: exploration and ethnography in the Maine woods -- Postcolonial Whitman: the poet and the nation in the 1855 preface to Leaves of Grass -- Passage to (more than) India: the poetics and politics of Whitman's textualization of the Orient
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-235)and index
,
Figures of dependence: exploring the postcolonial in Emerson's selected texts -- Beyond the traveler's testimony: English traits and the construction of postcolonial counter-discourse -- Emerson, New England, and the rhetoric of expansion -- Thoreau's imperial fantasy: Walden versus Robinson Crusoe -- The politics of the genre: exploration and ethnography in the Maine woods -- Postcolonial Whitman: the poet and the nation in the 1855 preface to Leaves of Grass -- Passage to (more than) India: the poetics and politics of Whitman's textualization of the Orient.
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Amerikanistik
Schlagwort(e):
Emerson, Ralph Waldo 1803-1882
;
Thoreau, Henry David 1817-1862
;
Whitman, Walt 1819-1892
;
USA
;
Nationalbewusstsein
;
Transzendentalismus
