| American Poetic Materialism from Whitman to Stevens Contributor(s): Noble, Mark (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107084504 ISBN-13: 9781107084506 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 811.009 |
| LCCN: 2014026555 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 9.3" (1.05 lbs) 242 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In American Poetic Materialism from Whitman to Stevens, Mark Noble examines writers who rethink the human in material terms. Do our experiences correlate to our material elements? Do visions of a common physical ground imply a common purpose? Noble proposes new readings of Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, George Santayana and Wallace Stevens that explore a literary history wrestling with the consequences of its own materialism. At a moment when several new models of the relationship between human experience and its physical ground circulate among critical theorists and philosophers of science, this book turns to poets who have long asked what our shared materiality can tell us about our prospects for new models of our material selves. |
Contributor Bio(s): Noble, Mark: - Mark Noble is Assistant Professor of English at Georgia State University, where he teaches American literature and critical theory. He received his PhD from The Johns Hopkins University in 2009. Noble's essays have been published in American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Literature. |