"The Complicity of Imagination provides some excellent insights into certain aspects of the American Renaissance's reception of seventeenth-century English Literature....it will prove worth the while of all those interested in the sources from which antebellum New England drew its inspiration." K.P. Van Anglen, The New England Quarterly

• 1. Cultural predicaments and authorial responses; 2. A Seraph's Eloquence: Emerson's inspired language and Milton's apocalyptic prose; 3. Margaret Fuller's The Two Herberts: Emerson and the disavowal of sequestered virtue; 4. As If a Green Bough were Laid Across the Page: Thoreau's seventeenth-century landscapes and extravagant personae; 5. Melville's Mardi and Moby-Dick: marvelous travel narratives, and seventeenth-century methods of inquiry; 6. Surmising the infidel: Melville reads Milton.

"The Complicity of Imagination provides some excellent insights into certain aspects of the American Renaissance's reception of seventeenth-century English Literature....it will prove worth the while of all those interested in the sources from which antebellum New England drew its inspiration." K.P. Van Anglen, The New England Quarterly

• 1. Cultural predicaments and authorial responses; 2. A Seraph's Eloquence: Emerson's inspired language and Milton's apocalyptic prose; 3. Margaret Fuller's The Two Herberts: Emerson and the disavowal of sequestered virtue; 4. As If a Green Bough were Laid Across the Page: Thoreau's seventeenth-century landscapes and extravagant personae; 5. Melville's Mardi and Moby-Dick: marvelous travel narratives, and seventeenth-century methods of inquiry; 6. Surmising the infidel: Melville reads Milton.

"The Complicity of Imagination provides some excellent insights into certain aspects of the American Renaissance's reception of seventeenth-century English Literature....it will prove worth the while of all those interested in the sources from which antebellum New England drew its inspiration." K.P. Van Anglen, The New England Quarterly

• 1. Cultural predicaments and authorial responses; 2. A Seraph's Eloquence: Emerson's inspired language and Milton's apocalyptic prose; 3. Margaret Fuller's The Two Herberts: Emerson and the disavowal of sequestered virtue; 4. As If a Green Bough were Laid Across the Page: Thoreau's seventeenth-century landscapes and extravagant personae; 5. Melville's Mardi and Moby-Dick: marvelous travel narratives, and seventeenth-century methods of inquiry; 6. Surmising the infidel: Melville reads Milton.