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