The Victorian Fol Sage: Comparative Readings on Carlyle, Emerson, Melville, and Conrad

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Bucknell University Press, 1989 - 132 páginas
In considering the responses of Carlyle, Emerson, Melville, and Conrad to Montaigne and to one another, this work focuses on the fundamental contradiction between wisdom and art and demonstrates that this contradiction impels the writing of the Essais and generates the Victorian sage's antic speculations.
 

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Carlyle and Montaigne Their Silent Conversation
20
Emersons Divine Comedy
38
Melvilles Mute Glass
59
Of Blindness in Conrads Spectacular Universe
86
The Consolation of Folly
98
Notes
102
Select Bibliography
120
Index
129
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