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In this 1991 book, Joel Porte examines nineteenth-century literature, focusing on the general question of the American Romantic ego and its varying modalities of self-creation, self-display, self-projection, and self-concealment. The book begins by exploring the status of the 'text' in nineteenth-century American writing, the relationship of 'rhetorical' reading to historical context, and the nature of 'Romanticism' in an American setting. Porte then concentrates on the great authors of the period through a series of thematically linked but critically discrete essays on Brown, Irving, Parkman, Cooper, Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Melville, Douglass, Stowe, Whitman, and Dickinson. Throughout his important new study, Porte offers provocative reassessments of familiar texts while at the same time casting an illuminating critical eye on less well-known territory. Readers of this book will come away with increased respect for the achievement of American Romantic writers.

Egotism in literature --- Ik in de literatuur --- Moi dans la littérature --- Self in literature --- Soi dans la littérature --- Zelf in de literatuur --- American literature --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- Romanticism --- United States --- Poe, Edgar Allan --- Criticism and interpretation --- Douglass, Frederick --- Stowe, Harriet Elizabeth Beecher --- Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel --- Thoreau, Henry David --- Emerson, Ralph Waldo --- Melville, Herman --- Whitman, Albery Allson --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Egoism in literature. --- Self in literature. --- History and criticism.

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Emerson and Thoreau are the most celebrated odd couple of nineteenth-century American literature. Appearing to play the roles of benign mentor and eager disciple, they can also be seen as bitter rivals: America's foremost literary statesman, protective of his reputation, and an ambitious and sometimes refractory protégé. The truth, Joel Porte maintains, is that Emerson and Thoreau were complementary literary geniuses, mutually inspiring and inspired.In this book of essays, Porte focuses on Emerson and Thoreau as writers. He traces their individual achievements and their points of intersection, arguing that both men, starting from a shared belief in the importance of "self-culture," produced a body of writing that helped move a decidedly provincial New England readership into the broader arena of international culture. It is a book that will appeal to all readers interested in the writings of Emerson and Thoreau.

National characteristics, American, in literature. --- Consciousness in literature. --- Culture in literature. --- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, --- Thoreau, Henry David, --- Thoreau, Henry David --- Thoreau, Henry D. --- Toro, Genri Devid, --- Thoreau, Henry, --- Toro, Henri Dejvid, --- Thorō, Enry Deēvint, --- So-lo, --- Toro, Henri Daṿid, --- Thoreau, David Henry, --- Sorō, Henrī Deividdo, --- טהארא, הענרי דייוויד --- טהארא, הענרי דײװיד --- תורו, הנרי דוד --- תורו, הנרי דוד, --- 梭罗, --- ソロー ヘンリー・デイヴィッド, --- Imarsana, Rāfa Vālḍō, --- Emerson, R. W. --- Emerson, Waldo, --- Emerson, R. Waldo --- Ėmerson, Ralʹf Uoldo, --- Ai-mo-sheng, --- Emarsan̲, --- אמרסון, רלף ולדו, --- עמערסון, ראלף וואלדא, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- New England --- Intellectual life

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American fiction --- History and criticism.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, --- Criticism and interpretation.