American Impersonal brings together some of the most influential scholars now working in American literature to explore the impact of one of America's leading literary critics: Sharon Cameron. It engages directly with certain arguments that Cameron...
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American Impersonal brings together some of the most influential scholars now working in American literature to explore the impact of one of America's leading literary critics: Sharon Cameron. It engages directly with certain arguments that Cameron has articulated throughout her career, most notably her late work on the question of impersonality. In doing so, it provides responses to questions fundamental to literary criticism, such as: the nature of personhood; the logic of subjectivity in depersonalized communities; the question of the human within the problematic of the impersonal; how impe
FC; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Being Singularly Impersonal: Jonathan Edwards and the Aesthetics of Consent-James D. Lilley; 2 Melville's Creatures, or Seeing Otherwise-Colin Dayan; 3 On Ecstasy: Sharon Cameron's Reading of Emerson-Paul Grimstad; 4 The Recognition of Emerson's Impersonal: Reading Alternatives in Sharon Cameron-Johannes Voelz; 5 On the Matter of Thinking: Margaret Fuller's Beautiful Work-Vesna Kuiken; 6 Thoreau's Journal: Reading Nature-George Kateb
7 What Music Shall We Have? Thoreau on the Aesthetics and Politics of Listening-Branka Arsic8 Hawthorne's Fictional Commitments: The Early Tales-Kerry Larson; 9 Hawthorne's Rage: On Form and the Dharma-Theo Davis; 10 Formal, New, and Relational Aesthetics: Dickinson's Multitexts-Shira Wolosky; 11 Beyond Sense: Portraits and Objects in Henry James's Late Writings-Michael Moon; 12 Believing in "Maud-Evelyn": Henry James and the Obligation to Ghosts-Shari Goldberg; 13 The Ends of Imagination: Stevens's Impersonal-Mark Noble; Contributors; Index
