Table of Contents
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Prefatory Notes |
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Introduction: The Estrangement of Poet and Reader |
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Critics in the Material World |
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The Dissociation of the Poet: A Brief History |
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An Overview of This Study |
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A Note on Inclusion and Exclusion |
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Chapter 1: Romanticism and Politics: Perspectives and Contexts |
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Romanticism and Liberalism in Conflict |
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Romanticism, Mythology, and Ideology |
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From Aesthetics to Politics in the World |
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Transcendentalism and Empiricism |
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Chapter 2: Selfless Reliance: Emerson’s Psychology of Power |
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The Impersonal Is Political |
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Emerson as a Psychologist |
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Emerson as Literary Guru |
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The Self as Society |
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Transcendental vs. Empirical Concepts of Identity |
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Nominalism, Realism, and Identity |
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The Post-Transcendentalist Poet |
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Friends of Solitude |
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“Experience”: The Consequences of Power |
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Chapter 3: Pound’s Public Mysticism—and Search for an Audience |
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The Missing Subject |
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From Emerson to Whitman to Pound |