| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
poetry, philosophy, science |
| Author: |
BrantleyRichard E, |
| Place of Publication: |
New York |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
2013 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (x, 272 pages). |
| Series: |
Nineteenth Century Major Lives and Letters |
| Subject: |
Philosophy in literature. - |
| Subject: |
LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry - |
| Personal Subject: |
Dickinson, Emily - Criticism and interpretation. - |
| Personal Subject: |
Dickinson, Emily - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137107916 |
| Notes: |
Description based on print version record |
| Summary: |
"Emily Dickinson's Rich Conversation: Poetry, Philosophy, Science" accounts for Dickinson's aesthetic and intellectual life. Her dialogue with Wordsworth's 'natural methodism,' Emerson's subject/object dyclmic, Locke's rational empiricism, and Darwin's evolutionary biology substitutes faith in experience for the 'Experiential Faith' of her Anglo-American heritage. Yet her variation on realism, rather more tough-mindedly than her precursors and contemporaries in belles and bonnes lettres, keeps optimism and hope in play. Even the pre-Modern tone of her recurrent pessimism can participate in late-Romantic resilience and models survival through adaptation. Thus Dickinson speaks to all who would take heart from her watchword: 'Experiment escorts us last.'. |
| ISBN: |
9781137107916electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
113710791Xelectronic bk. |
| Content Note: |
Proclaiming empiricism Guiding experiment Gaining loss Despairing hope. |