Voyages of the self pairs, parallels, and patterns in American art and literature / [electronic resource] :
Barbara Novak.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- xii, 217 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.).
Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-199) and index.
Copley and Edwards : self, consciousness, and thing -- Emerson and Lane : luminist time and the transcendental aboriginal self -- Thoreau and Indian selfhood : circles, silence, and democratic land -- Whitman and Church : transcendent optimism and the democratic self -- Homer and James : the pragmatic self made concrete -- Dickinson and Ryder : immortality, eternity, and the reclusive self -- Pollock and Olson : time, space, and the activated bodily self.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
American literature--History and criticism. Art and literature--History.--United States Painting, American. Self-perception in literature. Self-perception in art.