Splintered Worlds by Robert M. Greenberg (9781555531676)

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Explores how four American writers responded to the overwhelming fragmentation of their 19th-century world by drawing on a romantic ideal of diversity. Finds that Emerson and Melville had a segmentary vision of reality, which emphasizes multiplicity and abundance; while Whitman and Dickinson had an

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Splintered Worlds

Fragmentation and the Ideal of Diversity in the Work of Emerson, Melville, Whitman and Dickinson

Robert M. Greenberg

Description - Splintered Worlds by Robert M. Greenberg

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