The Romantic Sublime: Studies in the Structure and Psychology of Transcendence

A necessary and saving fiction is both a Stevensian trope and a return to Weiskel's own yearning to establish a structure and a psy chology for transcendence.The hope, as in Emerson and in Stevens, is a very American modification of the European Protestant ethos, and Weiskel takes his rightful place in that tradition, both choosing and being chosen by it.