Emersonian Americanism and Popular Democratic Culture
Emersonian Americanism and Popular Democratic Culture
Author(s): Mychailo KalinichenkoSubject(s): Cultural history, Fiction, Other Language Literature, Sociology of Culture, 19th Century, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Universitatii LUCIAN BLAGA din Sibiu
Keywords: Emerson; the essay Nature; popular democratic culture; North-American Romanticism; popular American fiction;
Summary/Abstract: The article asserts the necessity of studying R.W. Emerson's creative work in correlation with the discourse of mass-market North-American literature of the first half of the nineteenth century; it also discusses the specific traits of Emerson's Americanism reflected in the essay Nature.
Journal: East-West Cultural Passage
- Issue Year: 15/2015
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 50-68
- Page Count: 19
- Language: English
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