Transatlantic Transformations of Romanticism

Mark Sandy is Professor of English Literature at Durham University. His research interests are Romantic and nineteenth-century poetics and twentieth-century American Literature. His publications include Poetics of Self and Form in Keats and Shelley (Ashgate 2005; Routledge, 2019) and Romanticism, Memory, and Mourning (Ashgate, 2013).

• AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsI. Imagining Nature1. Introduction: Reflections on Transatlantic Exchanges, Subjectivity and Nature2. Romantic Influence and Nature Reconsidered: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David ThoreauII. Romantic Transactions: Subjects in Nature3. Dissolving Subjectivities: Imagined Selves in F. Scott Fitzgerald and John Keats4. Ghostly Selves, Light and Nature in William Faulkner: Wordsworthian Shadows and Byronic ShadesIII. Romantic Transformations: Fictional Selves and Nature5. Fictions of the Self and Nature: Reading Romanticism in Saul Bellow6. Re-Imagined Pastoral Poetics: Narrative Structures and the Environment in Toni Morrison and William WordsworthCoda: Nature without Self: Beauty, Death and Subjectivity in the Poetics of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson and Wallace StevensBibliographyIndex

Like P. B. Shelley, calling upon ‘the phantoms of a thousand hours,’ Mark Sandy conjures the mind and spirit, the sentient presence in nature, animating the literary heritage. Liberating the transactions of Romanticism from timebound chronologies, Sandy illuminates brilliantly the literary engagement with dynamic nature in a wide diversity of American authors of the last century.