04438cam a2200661Ma 4500 ocn859673290 OCoLC 20200709060455.0 m d cr |||||||nn|n 120307s2012 mau obd 001 0 eng d MdBmJHUP eng pn N15 OCLCO ORE P@U OCLCO OCLCF JSTOR YDXCP SFB OCLCQ OCLCO OCL OCLCQ EBLCP CCO MERUC LOA COCUF OCLCQ K6U PIFAG FVL N$T 823655536 823678857 9781613761977 (electronic bk.) 161376197X (electronic bk.) 9781558499577 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 9781558499560 (library cloth ; alk. paper) 1558499563 1558499571 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 1246445 (N$T) (OCoLC)859673290 (OCoLC)823655536 (OCoLC)823678857 22573/ctt5n1t9c JSTOR PS217.T7 H37 2012eb REL000000 bisacsh HIS054000 bisacsh LIT004020 bisacsh 810.9/384 23 MAIN Hardack, Richard. Not altogether human [electronic resource] : pantheism and the dark nature of the American renaissance / Richard Hardack. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2012. 1 online resource (304 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier "The seductive god": Pan and the emergence of a transcendental America -- The "not me": the black nature of an animated world -- "A democracy of devils": the limits of individualism in Emerson and Melville -- The melancholy of anatomy: the body politics of American pantheism. "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 racialized, and the divine became associated with African American and Native American identities, as well as with femininity. In "Not Altogether Human," Hardack reevaluates transcendentalism in the context of nineteenthcentury 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."--Project Muse. Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record. Added to collection customer.56279.3 Pantheism in literature. Transcendentalism in literature. American literature 19th century History and criticism. RELIGION General. bisacsh American literature. fast (OCoLC)fst00807113 Pantheism in literature. fast (OCoLC)fst01052226 Transcendentalism in literature. fast (OCoLC)fst01154557 1800-1899 fast Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01411635 Print version: Hardack, Richard. Not altogether human. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2012 9781558499577 (DLC) 2012007993 (OCoLC)768167110 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1246445 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL4533120 Project MUSE MUSE muse17629 YBP Library Services YANK 10383989 EBSCOhost EBSC 1246445 92 N$T 56912 56912