Copley and Edwards : self, consciousness, and thing
Emerson and Lane : luminist time and the transcendental aboriginal self
Thoreau and Indian selfhood : circles, silence, and democratic land
Whitman and Church : transcendent optimism and the democratic self
Homer and James : the pragmatic self made concrete
Dickinson and Ryder : immortality, eternity, and the reclusive self
Pollock and Olson : time, space, and the activated bodily self.
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Voyages of the self : pairs, parallels, and patterns in American art and literature by Barbara Novak. ISBN 9780195305906. Published by Oxford University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
