Author: Kenneth Walter CameronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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The Thoreau Secondary Bibliography
Author: Kenneth Walter CameronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Toward a Thoreau Tertiary Bibliography, 1833-1899
Author: Kenneth Walter CameronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher:
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Category : Concord River (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Special Bibliography Series
Author: Walden
Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher:
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Category : American essays
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience: This is Thoreau's classic protest against government's interference with individual liberty. One of the most famous essays ever written, it came to the attention of Gandhi and formed the basis for his passive resistance movement.
Walden Pond
Author: W. Barksdale MaynardPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198037682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Perhaps no other natural setting has as much literary, spiritual, and environmental significance for Americans as Walden Pond. Some 700,000 people visit the pond annually, and countless others journey to Walden in their mind, to contemplate the man who lived there and what the place means to us today. Here is the first history of the Massachusetts pond Thoreau made famous 150 years ago. W. Barksdale Maynard offers a lively and comprehensive account of Walden Pond from the early nineteenth century to the present. From Thoreau's first visit at age 4 in 1821--"That woodland vision for a long time made the drapery of my dreams"--to today's efforts both to conserve the pond and allow public access, Maynard captures Walden Pond's history and the role it has played in social, cultural, literary, and environmental movements in America. Along the way Maynard details the geography of the pond; Thoreau's and Emerson's experiences of Walden over their lifetimes; the development of the cult of Thoreau and the growth of the pond as a site of literary and spiritual pilgrimages; rock star Don Henley's Walden Woods Project and the much publicized battle to protect the pond from developers in the 1980s; and the vitally important ecological symbol Walden Pond has become today. Exhaustively researched, vividly written, and illustrated with historical photographs and the most detailed maps of Thoreau country yet created, Walden Pond: A History reveals how an ordinary pond has come to be such an extraordinarily inspiring symbol.
Civil Disobedience
Author: Henry David ThoreauPublisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775412466
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience in 1849. It argues the superiority of the individual conscience over acquiescence to government. Thoreau was inspired to write in response to slavery and the Mexican-American war. He believed that people could not be made agents of injustice if they were governed by their own consciences.
The Undergraduate's Companion to American Writers and Their Web Sites
Author: Larry G. HinmanPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313091471
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
An outstanding research guide for undergraduate students of American literature, this best-selling book is essential when it comes to researching American authors. Bracken and Hinman identify and describe the best and most current sources, both in print and online, for nearly 300 American writers whose works are included in the most frequently used literary anthologies. Students will know exactly what information is available and where to find it.
Reading the Roots
Author: Michael P. BranchPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820325484
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Reading the Roots is an unprecedented anthology of outstanding early writings about American nature--a rich, influential, yet critically underappreciated body of work. Rather than begin with Henry David Thoreau, who is often identified as the progenitor of American nature writing, editor Michael P. Branch instead surveys the long tradition that prefigures and anticipates Thoreau and his literary descendants. The selections in Reading the Roots describe a diversity of landscapes, wildlife, and natural phenomena, and their authors represent many different nationalities, cultural affiliations, religious views, and ideological perspectives. The writings gathered here also range widely in terms of subject, rhetorical form, and disciplinary approach--from promotional tracts and European narratives of contact with Native Americans to examples of scientific theology and romantic nature writing. The volume also includes a critical introduction discussing the cultural, scientific, and literary value of early American nature writing; headnotes that contextualize all authors and selections; and a substantial bibliography of primary and secondary sources in the field. Reading the Roots at last makes early American landscapes--and a range of literary responses to them--accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.
Emerson on Education and Scholars ; The Hawthorn Secondary Bibliography ; The Voice from Nirvana : Backgrounds of Emerson's "Brahma" ;Thoreau's Doctrines of Simplicity
Author: Kenneth Walter CameronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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