American Renaissance Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
, by Matthiessen, F. O.- ISBN: 9780195007596 | 019500759X
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/31/1968
This text has taken its place as the definitive treatment of the most distinguished age of American literature. Centering the discussion around five literary giants of the mid-nineteenth century-Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman. Matthiessen elucidates their conceptions of the nature and function of literature, and the extent to which these were realized in their writings.