The Postcolonial and Imperial Experience in American Transcendentalism

Paryz, M.

Analyses literary representations of the American experience in selected works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. Reveals the ambivalence that underlay the cultural and political development of the United States as a former colony.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2012-01-17

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349341825

DOI: 10.1057/9781137012180

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 240