This book provides innovative readings of literary works of British Romanticism and its influence on twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literary culture and thought. Intro -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- I. Imagining Nature...
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This book provides innovative readings of literary works of British Romanticism and its influence on twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literary culture and thought. Intro -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- I. Imagining Nature -- 1. Introduction: Reflections on Transatlantic Exchanges, Subjectivity and Nature -- 2. Romantic Influence and Nature Reconsidered: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau -- II. Romantic Transactions: Subjects in Nature -- 3. Dissolving Subjectivities: Imagined Selves in F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Keats -- 4. Ghostly Selves, Light and Nature in William Faulkner: Wordsworthian Shadows and Byronic Shades -- III. Romantic Transformations: Fictional Selves and Nature -- 5. Fictions of the Self and Nature: Reading Romanticism in Saul Bellow -- 6. Reimagined Pastoral Poetics: Narrative Structures and the Environment in Toni Morrison, Thoreau and Wordsworth -- Coda: Nature without Self: Beauty, Death and Subjectivity in the Poetics of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens -- Bibliography -- Index.