TY - BOOK AU - Buell, Lawrence TI - Literary Transcendentalism Style and vision in the American Renaissance SN - 9780801491528 U1 - 810.938 PY - 1973/// CY - New York PB - Cornell University Press KW - Literature (General) KW - Nature as a Model KW - Transcendental Egoism N1 - IntroductionPart I. Background and General Principles1. The Emergence of the Transcendentalist Aesthetic from American Unitarianism2. Transcendentalist Literary Method: Inspiration versus CraftsmanshipPart II. The Living Word3. From Conversation to Essay4. From Sermon to ScripturePart III. Word and World: Nature as a Model for Literary Form5. Emerson and the Idea of Microcosmic Form6. Catalogue Rhetoric7. Thoreau and the Literary Excursion8. Thoreau's A Week9. Ellery Channing: The Major Phase of a Minor PoetPart IV. The First Person10. Transcendentalist Self-Examination and Autobiographical Tradition11. Emerson and Thoreau: Soul versus Self12. Transcendental Egoism in Very and WhitmanIndex ER -