Splintered Worlds: Fragmentation and the Ideal of Diversity in the Work of Emerson, Melville, Whitman and Dickinson

Robert M. Greenberg

Format
Hardback
Publisher
Northeastern University Press
Country
United States
Published
4 December 1993
Pages
256
ISBN
9781555531676

Splintered Worlds: Fragmentation and the Ideal of Diversity in the Work of Emerson, Melville, Whitman and Dickinson

Robert M. Greenberg

Explores how four American writers responded to the overwhelming fragmentation of their 19th-century world by drawing on a romantic ideal of diversity. Finds that Emerson and Melville had a segmentary vision of reality, which emphasizes multiplicity and abundance; while Whitman and Dickinson had an

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