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This book establishes surprise as a key Emersonian affect, and demonstrates its significance for transatlantic modernism and the philosophy of pragmatism.

Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2013.

Demonstrates that the quest for immediacy, or experiences of direct connection and presence, has propelled the development of American literature and media cult

Argues that a new, post-postmodern aesthetic emerges in the 1990s as American writers grapple with the triumph of free-market politics.

The book analyzes the evolution of antebellum literary explorations of sympathy and human contact in the 1850s and 1860s. It will appeal to undergraduates and s