| Romantic Turbulence: Chaos, Ecology, and American Space 2000 Edition Contributor(s): Na, Na (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312228821 ISBN-13: 9780312228828 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 810.935 |
| LCCN: 00020514 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.77" W x 8.57" (0.68 lbs) 169 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Eric Wilson reveals a neglected yet powerful current in several major Romantic figures: the affirmation of - not escape from - turbulence. Romantic Turbulence unearths the chaotic undercurrents of European Romanticism found in Goethe s science and Schelling s philosophy, and demonstrates how these tendencies agitate the texts of Emerson, Fuller, Melville, Thoreau, and Whitman. These writers see the universe not as a reflection of transcendent harmony or a system of predictable laws but rather as a convergence of chaos and order, a polarized field. Detailing this undulatory cosmos, Wilson shows how these American Romantics participate in its unsettling rhythms by practicing an ecological poetics, translating the energies of their habitat into living compositions. |