Romantic Turbulence: Chaos, Ecology, and American Space

Author:   Eric Wilson
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9780333929810


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   14 September 2000
Format:   Hardback
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Romantic Turbulence: Chaos, Ecology, and American Space


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This study argues that there is a neglected yet powerful current in several major Romantic figures: the affirmation of-not escape from turbulence. The book unearths the chaotic undercurrents of European Romanticism found in Goethe's science and Schelling's philosophy, and demonstrates how these tendencies agitate the texts of Emerson, Fuller, Melville, Thoreau, and Whitman. These writers see the universe not as a reflection of transcendent harmony or a system of predictable laws but rather as a convergence of chaos and order, a polarized field. Detailing this undulatory cosmos, the author seeks to show how these American Romantics participate in its unsettling rhythms by practising an ecological poetics, translating the energies of their habitat into living compositions.

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Author:   Eric Wilson
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.10cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.333kg
ISBN:  

9780333929810


ISBN 10:   0333929810
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   14 September 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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ERIC WILSON is Assistant Professor of English at Wake Forest University.

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