Emerson's Sublime Science (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333718926)

Emerson's Sublime Science explores relationships among Emerson's poetics, theory of the sublime, and engagement with electromagnetism. The book illustrates how Davy's chemistry and Faraday's physics revealed to Emerson a sublime universe in which matter is boundless electrical force. It argues that Emerson translated this discovery into a sublime writing style crafted to galvanize readers with the insight that matter is energy. In illuminating Emerson's project, this study also uncovers connections among British Romanticism, American Romanticism, and nineteenth-century science.

Author: E. Wilson
ISBN-10: 0333718925
ISBN-13: 9780333718926
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/02/1999
Pages: 204
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d