The Postcolonial and Imperial Experience in American Transcendentalism

By Marek Paryz

Book Overview

Analyses literary representations of the American experience in selected works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman. Reveals the ambivalence that underlay the cultural and political development of the United States as a former colony.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349341827
• ISBN13: 9781349341825
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"