Myth and Literature in the American RenaissanceThere are perhaps as many definitions of myth as of romanticism, but a renewed interest in myth as "authentic tidings of invisible things" is one of the most commonly remarked characteristics of early nineteenth-century literature. American writers from Emerson to Melville were very well read in myth and in mythic theory and were highly conscious of myth as a subject of special interest to the age. Richardson shows how our major writers consciously understood and used myth. - Jacket flap. |
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... mind . One of her conversation " classes " went so deeply into the problem that one of the ladies did a translation of another of Müller's books for the occasion . Elizabeth Peabody's own later essay " The Dorian Measure " ( 1849 ) ...
... mind . One of her conversation " classes " went so deeply into the problem that one of the ladies did a translation of another of Müller's books for the occasion . Elizabeth Peabody's own later essay " The Dorian Measure " ( 1849 ) ...
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... mind common to all individual men .... Of the works of this mind history is the record . " Furthermore , as each man participates in the common mind , so " the whole history is in [ each ] man , ” and “ it is all to be explained from ...
... mind common to all individual men .... Of the works of this mind history is the record . " Furthermore , as each man participates in the common mind , so " the whole history is in [ each ] man , ” and “ it is all to be explained from ...
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... mind . " Mythol- ogy and theology both result from theism , and , Emerson goes on , " theism is the purification of the human mind . Man can paint , or make , or think nothing but man . ” Emerson presents the reader with seven great men ...
... mind . " Mythol- ogy and theology both result from theism , and , Emerson goes on , " theism is the purification of the human mind . Man can paint , or make , or think nothing but man . ” Emerson presents the reader with seven great men ...
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