The Law of the Heart : : Individualism and the Modern Self in American Literature / / Sam B. Girgus.
The Law of the Heart is a vigorous challenge to the prevailing concept of the “antidemocratic” image of the self in the American literary and cultural tradition. Sam B. Girgus counters this interpretation and attempts to develop a new understanding of democratic individualism and liberal humanism in...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1979 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 The modem tradition and the American self : Individualism and the perverted self
- Chapter 2 Poe and the transcendent self
- Chapter 3 Emerson and Brownson: The scholar; the self, and society
- Chapter 4 Whitman: Culture and self
- Chapter 5 Howells: The rebel in the one-dimensional age
- Chapter 6 Inner death and freedom in Henry James
- Chapter 7 Charles Ives: A modern perversion of transcendentalism
- Chapter 8 Beyond the Diver complex: The dynamics of modem individualism in F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Chapter 9 The radical individualism of William James: A theory of experience and the self for today
- Chapter 10 After the sixties: The continuing search
- Notes
- Index