Confirmed Tranquility: The Stoic Impulse in Transatlantic Romanticism
Spontaneous feeling has been a cornerstone of Romantic aesthetics since Wordsworth wrote his Preface to Lyrical Ballads. This dissertation unsettles the link between Romantic poetry and the overflow of emotion by arguing that writers from Wordsworth to Emerson persistently turned to Stoicism in rec...
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Harvard University
2014
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| Online Access: | http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11489 http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274463 |