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At Emerson's Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature

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At Emerson's Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature - Rowe, John Carlos
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Challenges the conventional critical reading of the American poetic project as an engagement with or reaction against Emersonian thought. Rowe demonstrates how ideals of individualism, intellectualism, and otherworldiness inevitably undermine any political effectiveness that a writer may seek to achieve.

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At Emerson's Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature 1997, Columbia University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780231058940

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At Emerson's Tomb: The Politics of Classic American Literature 1997, Columbia University Press, New York

ISBN-13: 9780231058957

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