Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories

Wilson, E.

Emerson's Sublime Science explores relationships among Emerson's poetics, theory of the sublime, and engagement with electromagnetism. The book illustrates how Davy's chemistry and Faraday's physics revealed to Emerson a sublime universe in which matter is boundless electrical force. It argues that Emerson translated this discovery into a sublime writing style crafted to galvanize readers with the insight that matter is energy. In illuminating Emerson's project, this study also uncovers connections among British Romanticism, American Romanticism, and nineteenth-century science.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1999-02-02

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333718926

DOI: 10.1057/9780230389717

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 204