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

by Michelle Kohler

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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"

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