Coordinates of Anglo-American Romanticism
Author | : Richard E. Brantley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 1993 |
ISBN-10 | : 0813011698 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780813011691 |
Rating | : 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Download or read book Coordinates of Anglo-American Romanticism written by Richard E. Brantley and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Constructing a transatlantic arc of literature, Brantley explores how John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards provide an empirical as well as evangelical framework for interpreting their spiritual descendants, Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson. He finds that the four Anglo-American writers share a simultaneously rational and sensational reliance on experience as the avenue to knowledge.