Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. The Editors’ Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. 0 Introduction 1
5. Part I: Definitions, Backgrounds, Contexts
6. 1 Antebellum Period and Romanticism: Definitions and Demarcations 9
7. 2 Antebellum Literary Culture: The Institutions of Romanticism 33
8. 3 Transnational Dimensions of Romanticism 55
9. 4 American Romanticism and Religion 81
10. 5 Romanticism and European Philosophy, or “Idealism As It Appears in 1842” 119
11. Part II: Intellectual, Spiritual, and Political Debates
12. 6 Romanticism and Democracy 143
13. 7 Romanticism and Social Reform 163
14. 8 American Romanticism and Esotericism 185
15. 9 America as Interior Space: Artificial Landscapes and the Modernization of Literature in Edgar Allan Poe’s Short Fiction 207
16. Part III: Contestations of Authorship and Genre
17. 10 Authorship as Profession and the Uses of Genre in Antebellum America 229
18. 11 Poet-Prophets and Seers: American Romanticism, Authorship, and Literary Institutions 249
19. 12 Life Writing and Romantic Expressivism 269
20. 13 The Fireside and Sentimental Poets 293
21. Part IV: Close Readings
22. 14 Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature (1836): American Romantic “Manifesto” 313
23. 15 Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845): Romanticism and (Proto)Feminism 335
24. 16 The Continuous Creation of Walden 355
25. 17 Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (1851) 375
26. 18 Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850) and the Historical Imagination in American Romanticism 389
27. 19 Romanticism and History: Göttingen and George Bancroft’s History of the United States (1834) 415
28. 20 Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) and the Politics of Sentimentalism 435
29. 21 Myth and Mythmaking in the Douglass Circle 453
30. 22 “The Soul Selects Her Own Society”: Emily Dickinson’s Poetry and the Creation of the Self 477
31. 23 The Great Psalm of the Republic: Walt Whitman’s Democratic Poetics 495
32. Part V: Reception Histories
33. 24 Transcendentalist Legacies in American Philosophy 517
34. 25 Rethinking Gender in Antebellum American Literature 537
35. 26 “In the Woods We Return to Reason and Faith”: American Romanticism, Environmentalism, and Seeker Spirituality 561
36. Index of Names 579
37. Index of Subjects 589
38. List of Contributors 599