TY - BOOK AU - Davis,Theo TI - Ornamental Aesthetics: The Poetry of Attending in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Whitman SN - 9780190467524 AV - PS217.A35 -- .D385 2016eb U1 - 820.9/357 PY - 2016/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press, Incorporated KW - American literature--19th century--History and criticism KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4545701 ER -