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

Author/Contributor(s):	Rowe, John Carlos
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	01/05/1997
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.