... Emerson's later rhetoric, has particular bearing on the question of Emerson's environmental aesthetics. Ecocritics who have characterized those aesthetics exclusively by way of Emerson's earliest poetics of metaphor need to consider what might be implicated in this writer's consistent use of "metonomy" to characterize a more fluid, material, and empirical relationship between "particular natures" and ... its way to James's empiricism, Emerson's Faraday, a metonym for mid-nineteenth century science and its most current understanding of nature's "flowing law," detranscendentalizes the neo-...

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