Tanner, Tony.

The reign of wonder : naivety and reality in American literature / Tony Tanner - Cambridge [Eng.] University Press, 1965. - viii, 388 p. 23 cm.

Bibliography: p. 362-380.

The sleep of reason -- The transcendentalists: Saints behold: the transcendentalist point of view -- Emerson: the unconquered eye and the enchanted circle -- Thoreau and the sauntering eye -- Walt Whitman's ecstatic first step -- Transcendentalism and imagism -- Mark Twain: The doctors of the wilderness -- A system of reduction -- The voice of the outlaw -- The pond of youth -- Huck Finn and the reflections of a saphead -- The twentieth century: Gertrude Stein and the complete actual present -- Sherwood Anderson's little things -- Ernest Hemingway's unhurried sensations -- Henry James: The candid outsider -- The range of wonderment -- The subjective adventure -- Wonder and alienation -the mystic and the moviegoer.


American literature--History and criticism.

PS88 / .T25

810.9 / TAN 1965