One. Real excavations -- Two. The drops of summer rain -- Three. In and out of the game with Walt Whitman -- Four. Disjunction - disclosure - Dickinson -- Five. Challenging appearances.
Summary:
"Focusing on Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson, this book challenges the theory that literature during the antebellum period was idealistic by considering contemporary notions of the real"-- Provided by publisher.
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