Title Endless experiments; essays on the heroic experience in American romanticism.

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Description	xi, 277 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	Introduction: Emerson: endless experimenter -- Walden: the equivalent response -- Whitman: the paradox of cosmic selfhood -- Ishmael: the hero in flux -- Apocalyptic imagination of A. Gordon Pym -- Paterson: the poet as tragic hero -- Epilogue: Wallace Stevens: the hero in an age of disbelief.
Form	Also issued online.
Subject	American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	American literature.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Romanticism -- United States.
	Romanticism.
	United States.
	Heroes in literature.
	Heroes in literature.
	Littérature américaine -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
	Romantisme -- États-Unis.
	Héros dans la littérature.
ISBN	0814201806
	9780814201800