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Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9780333718926
- ISBN-10: 0333718925
- Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- Publish Date: February 1999
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.63 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.94 pounds
- Page Count: 204
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