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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      18 December 2014
      15 December 2014
      ISBN:
      9781316026762
      9781107084506
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316026762
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 242 Pages
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      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (171)
      Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Literary Theory
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    Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (171)
    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Literary Theory
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    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.

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    '… Mark Noble offers an impressive reading of the materialist imaginations of Walt Whitman (1819–92), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82), George Santayana (1863–1952), Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), and other poets, philosophers, and scientists. … Noble’s work represents a serious engagement and wrestling with materialist philosophies and American poetics … Noble presents a history of complex and fluid materialisms. Noble traces a complex subject, but he presents his argument with clarity - often previewing and re-summarizing his claims, and with humor … I recommend American Poetic Materialism to a range of scholars - from those interested in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American poetry to historians of physics and modern science to anyone engaged in the emerging critical conversations about materialism.'

    James M. Cochran Source: Nineteenth Century Studies Association

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