Miles of Stare: Transcendentalism and the Problem of Literary Vision in Nineteenth-Century America

by Michelle Kohler

Miles of Stare explores the problem of nineteenth-century American literary vision: the strange conflation of visible reality and poetic language that emerges repeatedly in the metaphors and literary creations of American transcendentalists.

The strangeness of nineteenth-century poetic vision is exemplified most famously by Emerson's transparent eyeball. That disembodied, omniscient seer is able to shed its body and transcend sight paradoxically...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817318356
• ISBN13: 9780817318352
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"