Ornamental Aesthetics : The Poetry of Attending in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (265 pages)
Cover -- Ornamental Aesthetics -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: To Ornament -- 1. Beautiful Thoreau: An Ornament to Nature -- 2. Dickinson's Ornamental Form -- 3. Whitman and the Distinction of Ornament -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Theo Davis argues that ornamental aesthetics are central to Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman's writing, exploring the stakes of such an ornamental aesthetics through a parallel investigation of the ornamental aspects of Heidegger's phenomenological philosophy.
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American literature--19th century--History and criticism.