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Thoreau at two hundred : essays and reassessments / edited by Kristen Case and K.P. Van Anglen.
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English
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New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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xxi, 279 pages ; 24 cm
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Thoreau, Henry David 1817-1862
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Criticism and interpretation
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Thoreau, Henry David 1817-1862
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Philosophy
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Van Anglen, Kevin P.
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Case, Kristen, 1976-
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Summary note
"This volume examines Thoreau's life, writings and thought on the 200th anniversary of his birth. Written by distinguished scholars of Thoreau's life and works, it provides a comprehensive examination of Thoreau's continued relevance today. Subjects covered include Thoreau and the environment, his economic models in Walden, his relation to Native Americans and African Americans, his involvement with the Free Soil movement and abolition, his later reputation, Concord and its history, the Civil War and literary nationalism, his transnational understanding of time and space, his relation to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, literary expressions of our ongoing ecological crisis, and Thoreau as a philosopher and as an exemplar of new dimensions in American religion and spirituality. This book argues that Thoreau was drawn toward empirical, materialist and local, yet also holistic, cosmic and global understandings of nature and experience. It will be of interest to all scholars of Thoreau, and also to American literary studies more widely"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-271) and index.
Contents
Introduction / Kristen Case and K.P. Van Anglen
Part I. Thoreauvian Materialism(s)
Thoreau's materialism and environmental justice / Lance Newman
A Free Soiler in his own broad sense: Henry David Thoreau and the Free Soil movement / James S. Finley
Emancipation from the 'invisible hand': Thoreau's 'economy of living' / Susan E. Gallagher
Part II. The Local Context
Thoreau and Concord's black history / Elise C. Lemire
Red Walden: Thoreau and Native America / Joshua David Bellin
'Beyond all men of his day': T.W. Higginson and Thoreau's legacy in postbellum America / Sandra Harbert Petrulionis
'The nick of time': coming of age in Thoreau's Concord / Robert A. Gross
Part III. The Global Context
Culture and conflict: Thoreau, Great Britain, and the Civil War / Len Gougeon
Transnational Thoreau: time, space, and relativity / Paul Giles
Coleridge, Thoreau, and the transatlantic 'riddle of the world' / Samantha C. Harvey and Rochelle L. Johnson
Vanishing sounds: Thoreau between fable and elegy / Wai Chee Dimock
Part IV. Thoreauvian Cosmos
"The value of mutual intelligence": science, poetry, and Thoreau's cosmos / Laura Dassow Walls
Disaffiliation as engagement / Lawrence Buell
Thoreau and Cavell: unauthorized versions / Lawrence Rhu
Thoreau and the new American spirituality / Alan D. Hodder
The rooster's philosophy, or "the gospel according to this moment" / Robert D. Richardson.
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Thoreau at 200
ISBN
9781107094291 ((hardback))
1107094291 ((hardback))
LCCN
2016016145
OCLC
952195733
Other standard number
40026552983
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