Melville published in Putnam's Magazine for several years before he gathered up his essays to be printed in a single volume. However, he included a linking piece by a narrator, a sort of tie that wove
Birds were never far from Thoreau’s mind. They wing their way through his writing just as they did through his cabin on Walden Pond, summoned or dismissed at whim by his whistles. Emblematic of life,
In his essay “Compensation,” Emerson makes a surprising claim: “Every soul is by this intrinsic necessity quitting its whole system of things, its friends, and home, and laws, and faith, as the shell-
The Passive Eye is a revolutionary and historically rich account of Berkeley's theory of vision. In this formidable work, the author considers the theory of the embodied subject and its passions in li
Preface: About This BookIntroduction: Short History of American Impersonal: Sharon Cameron and Literary StudiesBranka Arsic 1. Melville's CreaturesColin Dayan2. Finding the Past in Hawthorne's Stories
Preface: About This BookIntroduction: Short History of American Impersonal: Sharon Cameron and Literary StudiesBranka Arsic 1. Melville's CreaturesColin Dayan2. Finding the Past in Hawthorne's Stories
Meville's Philosophies departs from a long tradition of critical assessments of Melville that dismissed his philosophical capacities as ingenious but muddled. Its contributors do not apply philosophy
Melville's Philosophies departs from a long tradition of critical assessments of Melville that dismissed his philosophical capacities as ingenious but muddled. Its contributors do not apply philosophy
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most significant figures in nineteenth-century American lileralure and culture---and indeed, this collection argues, in the history of philosophy. The Other Emerson i
