Emerson's Sublime Science

Download or read book Emerson's Sublime Science written by E. Wilson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-02-02 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.