Emerson's Sublime Science (Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories)

Emerson's Sublime Science (Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories) image
ISBN-10:

0333718925

ISBN-13:

9780333718926

Author(s): Wilson, E.
Edition: 1999
Released: Feb 02, 1999
Format: Hardcover, 216 pages
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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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