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by: John T. Irwin
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 810.915
EAN: 9780801829086
ISBN: 0801829089
Label: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: July 01, 1983
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Sales Rank: 1538140
Studio: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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'This is major scholarship, both as it contributes to American history of ideas and as it offers a brilliant new interpretation of major nineteenth-century American writers.'--J. Hillis Miller
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Rating: - "...the symbolization of origins and ends..."
This work is an excellent study of the image of Egyptian
hieroglphics, the aura and mystery attached to them,
and the effect which the decipherment of the Rosetta Stone
by the Frenchman Champollion had on major American authors
of the 19th century.
The author, John T. Irwin, divides the work into Three
Major Parts: (1) Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman; (2) Poe;
(3) Hawthorne and Melville. Under Part 1, Irwin has
the sub-sections: Champollion and the ... Read More
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