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Approaching to to teaching Thoreau's "Walden" and other works
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ISBN: 0873527348 087352733X Year: 1996 Publisher: New York, NY : Modern Language Association of America,

Henry David Thoreau
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ISBN: 0805774955 0805749780 Year: 1987 Publisher: Boston Twayne

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Thoreau's sense of place: essays in American environmental writing
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ISBN: 1587293110 9781587293115 0877457085 9780877457084 0877457204 9780877457206 Year: 2000 Publisher: Iowa City, Iowa University of Iowa Press

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Recent Thoreau studies have shifted to an emphasis on the green"" Thoreau, on Thoreau the environmentalist, rooted firmly in particular places and interacting with particular objects. In the wake of Buell's Environmental Imagination, the nineteen essayists in this challenging volume address the central questions in Thoreau studies today: how ""green,"" how immersed in a sense of place, was Thoreau really, and how has this sense of place affected the tradition of nature writing in America?


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Civilizing Thoreau : human ecology and the emerging social sciences in the major works
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ISBN: 1782047646 1571139605 Year: 2016 Publisher: Rochester, New York : Camden House,

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Recent book-length studies of Thoreau have focused either on his place in the history of the natural sciences or have applied political principles to his works. None, however, has fully addressed whatecocritic Rebecca Solnit calls "the Thoreau problem," the compartmentalizing of Thoreau's mind into either that of a hermit of nature or that of a champion of social reform. This book proposes an interdisciplinary solution to this problem through the connection between Thoreau's ecological study of nature and his intense interest in the emerging social sciences, especially the history of civilization and ethnology. The book first establishes Thoreau's "human ecology," the relation between the natural sciences and the social sciences in his thinking, exploring how his reading in contemporary books about the history of humanity and racial science shaped his thinking and connecting these emerging anthropological texts to his late nature writings. It then discusses these connections in his major works, including Walden and his "reform papers" such as "Civil Disobedience," the travel narrative A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, and Cape Cod. The concluding chapter focuses on Thoreau's attitude toward Manifest Destiny, arguing, against conventional views, that considering both his life and his writing, especially the essay "Walking," we must conclude that he both accepted and endorsed Manifest Destiny as an inevitable result of cultural succession. Richard J. Schneider is Professor Emeritus from Wartburg College.He has authored a monograph and many articles as well as edited three collections on Thoreau.


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Dark nature : anti-pastoral essays in American literature and culture
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ISBN: 9781498528115 Year: 2016 Publisher: Lanham (Md.) : Lexington Books,

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A collection of essays on American literature and culture, offering examples of how a vision of nature's darker side can create a fuller understanding of humanity's relation to nature. included are chapters on canonical American literature, new voices in American literature, and nonprint American media. This is the first collection of essays applying the "dark ecology" principle to American literature.


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Civilizing Thoreau : human ecology and the emerging social sciences in the major works
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ISBN: 9781782047643 9781571139603 Year: 2016 Publisher: Rochester, New York Camden House

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Henry David Thoreau : a documentary volume
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ISBN: 0787668354 Year: 2004

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