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Not Altogether Human - Pantheism and the Dark Nature of the American Renaissance (Paperback)
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Not Altogether Human - Pantheism and the Dark Nature of the American Renaissance (Paperback)
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Many leading American thinkers in the nineteenth century, who
accepted the premises of Emersonian transcendentalism, valued the
basic concept of pantheism: that God inheres in nature and in all
things, and that a person could achieve a sense of belonging she or
he lacked in society by seeking a oneness with all of nature. As
Richard Hardack shows, however, writers such as Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville conceived of
nature as everything "Other" -other than the white male Protestant
culture of which they were a part. This conception of nature, then,
became radicalised, and the divine became associated with African
American and Native American identities, as well as with
femininity. In "Not Altogether Human," Hardack re-evaluates
transcendentalism in the context of nineteenth century concerns
about individual and national racial identity. Elucidating the
influence of pantheism, Hardack draws on an array of canonical and
unfamiliar materials to remap the boundaries of what has long been
viewed as white male transcendental discourse. This book
significantly revises notions of what transcendentalism and
pantheism mean and how they relate to each other. Hardack's close
analysis of pantheism and its influence on major works and lesser
known writing of the nineteenth century opens up a new perspective
on American culture during this key moment in the country's
history.
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