Robinson Jeffers and the American sublime

Robinson Jeffers and the American sublime

by Zaller, Robert

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Jeffers, the best known poet of California and the American West, particularly valorized the Big Sur region, making it his own as Frost did New England and Faulkner, Mississippi, and connecting it to the wider tradition of the American sublime in Emerson, Thoreau, and John Muir. The book also links Jeffers to a Puritan sublime in early American verse and explores his response to the Darwinian and Freudian revolutions and his engagement with modern astronomy.

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  • Full title :Robinson Jeffers and the American sublime / Robert Zaller.

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Jeffers, the best known poet of California and the American West, particularly valorized the Big Sur region, making it his own as Frost did New England and Faulkner, Mississippi, and connecting it to the wider tradition of the American sublime in Emerson, Thoreau, and John Muir. The book also links Jeffers to a Puritan sublime in early American verse and explores his response to the Darwinian and Freudian revolutions and his engagement with modern astronomy.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:[2012], ©2012.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Stanford University Press
  • Place of Publication:Stanford, California
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:[2012], ©2012.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (x, 406 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0804781028, 9780804781022
  • oclc:ocn872395876
  • LC Classification:PS3519.E27
  • Dewey Decimal:811/.52

Table of Contents

Introduction : framing the American sublime -- Heavenly meditations -- Transcendental etudes -- Darwinian redemptions -- Configuring the California sublime -- The sacrificial son -- Democratic vistas -- The cosmological sublime -- Post mortem.

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Subjects

American poetry American poetry -- History and criticis… Criticism, interpretation, etc Jeffers, Robinson LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry Poésie américaine -- Histoire et critiq… Sublime dans la littérature Sublime, The, in literature

Writers

Zaller, Robert

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