"Walt Whitman, an American": so the poet introduced himself in the first poem of his first collection, and so he continues to be read and received, by fellow Americans and foreigners alike. His ...

The main literary and artistic currents of Romanticism are well known. This volume aims uniquely to set them in their wider contexts. Thirteen distinguished contributors examine the particular ...

Romanticism, he said, may perhaps be called the literature of intoxication and dream ... The world about us grows, it is true, more and more a dance of phantom formulae on the points of dial ...

The text takes students on an academic journey of American Literature from the period of Late Romanticism to Modernism and the present. Each chapter begins with brief writer bios and includes a ...

Romanticism is a term used to describe developments in literature, art and music in the ... on nature as part of a Romantic tradition helps us see how the poem is about the link between humans ...

An introduction to American literature, focusing on key novels, short stories and poems from the Romantic period through to the postmodern, and their relation to their historical and cultural contexts ...

"Romantic Poetry" in The Year's Work in English Studies, Oxford University Press, 84, 2004, 591-609. "An Ethics of Wonder and the Cure of Poetry: Wordsworth, William James and the American Reader," in ...

Romanticism is a term used to describe developments in literature, art and music in the ... on nature as part of a Romantic tradition helps us see how the poem is about the link between humans ...

Dr. Kurant teaches English Composition I and II, American Literature I, Early American Literature, American Romanticism, American Realism and Naturalism, American Modernism, Southern Literature, and ...

Nadia Schuman is a Visiting Assistant Professor of German. Her research interests include 19th Century German and British literary and political Romanticism, as well as Romanticism as a psychological ...