TY - MANSCPT AU - Matthiessen,F.O. TI - American renaissance: art and expression in the age of Emerson and Whitman SN - 019500759X U1 - 810.9 21 PY - 1968///], c1941 CY - London, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - American literature KW - History KW - Transcendentalism KW - United States KW - Intellectual life N1 - Includes index; Young Adult; Follett Library Resources N2 - Investigates the imaginative vitality of literature in the years between 1850 and 1855, focusing on the writings of Emerson, Hawthorn, Whitman, Melville, and Thoreau; discussing what these books were as works of art, evaluating their fusions of form and content, and considering the extent to which the authors realized their goals ER -