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Paperback American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre Book

ISBN: 0299127745

ISBN13: 9780299127749

American Sublime: The Genealogy of a Poetic Genre

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Tracing ideas of the sublime in American literature from Puritan writings to the postmodern epoch, Rob Wilson demonstrates that the North American landscape has been the ground for political as well as aesthetic transport. He takes a distinctly historical approach and explores the ways in which experiences of the American landscape instill desire for other kinds of vastness: self-expansion, national expansion, and American political power. As Wallace...

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