Emerson's Sublime Science (Romanticism in Perspectives: Texts, Cultures, Histories)

By Eric Wilson

Emerson's Sublime Science explores relationships among Emerson's poetics, theory of the sublime, and engagement with electromagnetism. The book illustrates how Davy's chemistry and Faraday's physics revealed to Emerson a sublime universe in which matter is boundless electrical force. It argues that Emerson translated this discovery into a sublime writing style crafted to galvanize readers with the insight that matter is energy. In illuminating Emerson's project, this study also uncovers connections among British Romanticism, American Romanticism, and nineteenth-century science.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333718925
• ISBN13: 9780333718926
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"