American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic GenreUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1991 - 337 Seiten Tracing ideas of the sublime in American literature from Puritan writings to the postmodern epoch, Rob Wilson demonstrates that the North American landscape has been the ground for political as well as aesthetic transport. He takes a distinctly historical approach and explores the ways in which experiences of the American landscape instill desire for other kinds of vastness: self-expansion, national expansion, and American political power. As Wallace Stevens put it, the American will takes "dominion everywhere." |
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... William Livingston , and William Cullen Bryant , whose dis- course was no less haunted by the grandeur of nature and country as tropes of sublimity empowering solitary attempts to represent national " elevation " ; ( 3 ) to situate ...
... William Palmer Hud- son , “ Archibald Alison and William Cullen Bryant , " American Liter- ature 12 ( 1940 ) : 59–68 ; Albert F. Mclean , Jr. , William Cullen Bryant ( New York : Twayne , 1964 ) : 29 , 43 , 125 ; and Rebecca Rio ...
... William , 98 , 103 , 104 Snelling , William Joseph , 124 Snyder , Gary , 255 Sontag , Susan : on Whitman , 145-46 ; on the camp sublime , 218 , 319n38 Spencer , Benjamin T .: on the topo- graphical fallacy , 157 , 305n34 Spicer , Jack ...
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