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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
The Thoreau Quarterly
Author: Thoreau Journal Quarterly
Author: The Thoreau Society Bulletin
Author: Thoreau SocietyJournal of Henry D. Thoreau
Author: Henry David ThoreauThoreau Journal Quarterly
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Author: Laura Dassow WallsPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022634469X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
"[The author] traces the full arc of Thoreau’s life, from his early days in the intellectual hothouse of Concord, when the American experiment still felt fresh and precarious, and 'America was a family affair, earned by one generation and about to pass to the next.' By the time he died in 1862, at only forty-four years of age, Thoreau had witnessed the transformation of his world from a community of farmers and artisans into a bustling, interconnected commercial nation. What did that portend for the contemplative individual and abundant, wild nature that Thoreau celebrated? Drawing on Thoreau’s copious writings, published and unpublished, [the author] presents a Thoreau vigorously alive in all his quirks and contradictions: the young man shattered by the sudden death of his brother; the ambitious Harvard College student; the ecstatic visionary who closed Walden with an account of the regenerative power of the Cosmos. We meet the man whose belief in human freedom and the value of labor made him an uncompromising abolitionist; the solitary walker who found society in nature, but also found his own nature in the society of which he was a deeply interwoven part. And, running through it all, Thoreau the passionate naturalist, who, long before the age of environmentalism, saw tragedy for future generations in the human heedlessness around him."--
A Bibliography of the Thoreau Society Bulletin Bibliographies, 1941-1969
Author: Jean Cameron AdvenaPublisher: Troy, N.Y : Whitston Publishing Company
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
"The index should be in all collections where Thoreau is studied."CHOICE"An indispensable guide for anyone working on Thoreau, this should be in all research, large college, and public libraries."LIBRARY JOURNAL
Thoreau Society Booklet
Author: Thoreau SocietyThe Emerson Society Quarterly
Author: Picturing Thoreau
Author: Mark W. SullivanPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739189077
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
As we approach the bicentennial, in 2017, of the birth of Henry David Thoreau, there is considerable debate and confusion as to what he may, or may not have, contributed to American life and culture. Almost every American has heard of Thoreau, but only a few are aware that he was deeply engaged with most of the important issues of his day, from slavery to “Manifest Destiny” and the rights of the individual in a democratic society. Many of these issues are still affecting us today, as we move toward the second quarter of the twenty-first century. By studying how various American artists have chosen to portray Thoreauover the years since the publication of Walden in 1854, we can gain a clear understanding of how he has been interpreted (or misinterpreted) throughout the years since his death in 1862. But along the way, we might also find something useful, for our times, in the insights that Thoreau gained as he wrestled with the most urgent problems being experienced by American society in his day.