Emerson's Sublime Science

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Emerson's Sublime Science is written by E. Wilson and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0230389716 (ISBN 10) and 9780230389717 (ISBN 13).

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.