Emerson's Sublime Science

by Eric Wilson

Emerson's Sublime Science explores relationships among Emerson's poetics, theory of the sublime, and engagement with electromagnetism. The book illustrates how Davy's chemistry and Faraday's physics revealed to Emerson a sublime universe in which matter is boundless electrical force. It argues that Emerson translated this discovery into a sublime writing style crafted to galvanize readers with the insight that matter is energy. In illuminating Emerson's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333718925
• ISBN13: 9780333718926
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"