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Thoreau at 200: Essays and Reassessments

Editat de Kristen Case, K. P. Van Anglen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 oct 2016
Henry David Thoreau's thinking about a number of ​issues - including the relationship between humans and other species, just responses to state violence, the threat posed to human freedom by industrial capitalism, and the essential relation between scientific 'facts' and poetic 'truths' - speaks to our historical moment as clearly as it did to the 'restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century' into which he was born. This volume, marking the two-hundredth anniversary of Thoreau's birth, gathers the threads of the contemporary, interdisciplinary conversation around this key figure in literary, political, philosophical, and environmental thought, uniting new essays by scholars who have shaped the field with chapters by emerging scholars investigating previously underexplored aspects of Thoreau's life, writings, and activities. Both a dispatch from the front lines of Thoreau scholarship and a vivid demonstration of Thoreau's relevance for twenty-first-century life and thought, Thoreau at 200 will be of interest for both Thoreau scholars and general readers.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781107094291
ISBN-10: 1107094291
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 2 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 158 x 239 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Introduction Kristen Case and K. P. Van Anglen; Part I. Thoreauvian Materialism(s): 1. Thoreau's materialism and twenty-first-century environmentalism Lance Newman; 2. A Free Soiler in his own broad sense: Henry David Thoreau and the Free Soil movement James S. Finley; 3. Emancipation from the 'invisible hand': Thoreau's 'economy of living' Susan E. Gallagher; Part II. The Local Context: 4. Thoreau and Concord's black history Elise Lemire; 5. Red Walden: Thoreau and Native America Joshua David Bellin; 6. 'Beyond all men of his day': T. W. Higginson and Thoreau's legacy in postbellum America Sandra Harbert Petrulionis; 7. 'The nick of time': Thoreau, New England, and America from Early Republic to Civil War Robert A. Gross; Part III. The Global Context: 8. Culture and conflict: Thoreau, Great Britain, and the Civil War Len Gougeon; 9. Transnational Thoreau: time, space, and relativity Paul Giles; 10. Coleridge, Thoreau, and the transatlantic 'riddle of the world' Samantha Celeste Harvey and Rochelle L. Johnson; 11. Hearing animals: Thoreau between fable and elegy Wai Chee Dimock; Part IV. Thoreauvian Cosmos: 12. The value of mutual intelligence: science, poetry, and Thoreau's cosmos Laura Dassow Walls; 13. Disaffiliation as engagement Lawrence Buell; 14. Thoreau and Cavell: unauthorized versions Lawrence Rhu; 15. Thoreau and the new American spirituality Alan D. Hodder; 16. The rooster's philosophy, or the gospel according to this moment Robert D. Richardson.

Recenzii

'… an authoritative array of well-informed insights that will be welcome indeed to anyone engaged in research on Thoreau or to those (why do they seem fewer these days?) who teach him on college courses …' Albert J. Von Frank, Modern Intellectual History

Descriere

This book gathers essays on central themes of Thoreau's life, work and critical reception, by both well-known and emerging scholars.