More Shopping OptionsThis new collection of specially-commissioned essays provides the most complete picture yet produced of the influence of William Wordsworth's writing on major American writers of the nineteenth century, such as Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman, Melville, and Dickinson. In addition to providing a thorough account of Wordsworth's influence on American literature, this collection also seeks to address the poet's influence on American culture, from religious reform to civic humanism, and in so doing hints at a new theory of transatlantic influence that accounts for transnational literary as well as cultural exchange. Contributors include James Butler, Elizabeth Fay, Stephen Gill, Susan Manning, and Adam Potkay.
Joel Pace is Assistant Professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
Matthew Scott is Lecturer of English at Hertford College in the University of Oxford.
Foreword: Wordsworth and American Literary Culture--S. Gill * Introduction: Wordsworth's American Legacy--M.Scott & J.Pace * "Grounds for Comparison": The Place of Style in Transatlantic Romanticism--S.Manning * The (Wordsworthian) Metamorphosis of Natty Bumppo--R.Gravil * Discord at Pennacook: Whittier and the Problem of American Picturesque--B.Graver * William Wordsworth, 'Patron of the World', and Thoreau as Poet--L.Newman * Against the Boston Philosophy: Henry Reed, Bishop Doane, and the Canonization of Wordsworth--A.Potkay * "We Murder to Dissect"?: Wordsworth and American Gothic--J.Pace * Intimations of Imitation: Wordsworth, Whitman, and the Emergence of Leaves of Grass--K.Karbiener * The Wordsworthian Cast of Dickinson's Romantic Heritage--R.Brantley * A Therapeutic Muse?: The Cure of Poetry in Wordsworth, Melville and William James--M.Scott * Wordsworth, Bostonian Chivalry and the Uses of Art--E.Fay * Home (At Grasmere and "On the Range"): Wordsworth and Owen Wister's The Virginian (1902)--J.A.Butler * Index
