Henry David Thoreau in Context

ISBN-13: 9781107149229 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 418 str.

James S. Finley

Opis

Henry David Thoreau in Context will help readers of Thoreau better understand and appreciate his life, works, and legacy.

Recenzje

'The genre more or less demands that the contributor's aim be to connect Thoreau with some extracted slice of the ambient culture, leading to a stackable set of conjoined or binary analyses: Thoreau and Religion, Thoreau and Technology, Thoreau and Native America, and so forth, an arrangement more exactly developed in the Finley collection.' Albert J. Von Frank, Modern Intellectual History

Spis treści

List of illustrations; List of contributors; Preface James S. Finley; Acknowledgements; Chronology Jeffrey S. Cramer; List of abbreviations and textual note; Part I. Geographic Contexts: 1. Concord Leslie Perrin Wilson; 2. Walden Pond and Walden Woods Kent C. Ryden; 3. Boston and Worcester Wesley T. Mott; 4. Maine Stan Tag; 5. The journey west: Minnesota Corinne H. Smith; Part II. Intellectual and Literary Contexts: 6. Classics Albena Bakratcheva; 7. Medievalism Kathleen Coyne Kelly; 8. The religious horizon Alan D. Hodder; 9. Romanticism Samantha C. Harvey; 10. Transcendentalism David Faflik; 11. Print culture Jonathan Senchyne; 12. The literature of travel William Stowe; 13. Translation François Specq; 14. Odd man in: Thoreau, the Lyceum movement, and the lecture circuit Ronald Wesley Hoag; Part III. Cultural and Political Contexts: 15. Capitalism Andrew Kopec; 16. Technology Laura Dassow Walls; 17. Politics Daniel S. Malachuk; 18. Slavery and abolition Sandra Harbert Petrulionis; 19. Native America John J. Kucich; 20. Warrior culture Larry J. Reynolds; 21. Diet and vegetarianism Kathryn Dolan; Part IV. Scientific and Environmental Contexts: 22. Natural history Hadley Leach; 23. Racial science Cristin Ellis; 24. Physical science Robert M. Thorson; 25. Phenology Kristen Case; 26. Animals Michelle C. Neely; 27. Evolution William Rossi; Part V. Several More Lives to Lead: Thoreau's Legacies: 28. The challenge of Thoreau's biography Ronald A. Bosco; 29. The evolution of Thoreau's reputation Richard J. Schneider; 30. Thoreau, Stanley Cavell, and American philosophy David M. Robinson; 31. Contemporary poetics Alexandra Manglis; 32. The patron saint of tiny houses April Anson; 33. The modern environmental movement Michael Ziser; 34. Popular culture Carl H. Sederholm; Further reading; Index.