Robert Milder,
Robert (Washington University, Missouri) Milder
Cambridge University Press
e druk, 2008
9780521068369
Reimagining Thoreau
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Paperback, 260 blz.
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Engels
Cambridge University Press |
e druk, 2008
ISBN13: 9780521068369
Rubricering
Onderdeel van serie
Cambridge Studies in
Verwachte levertijd ongeveer 9 werkdagen
Samenvatting
Reimagining Thoreau synthesises the interests of the intellectual and psychological biographer and the literary critic in a reconsideration of Thoreau's career from his graduation from Harvard in 1837 to his death in 1862. The purposes of the book are threefold: to situate Thoreau's aims and achievements as a writer within the context of his troubled relationship to a microcosm of ante-bellum Concord; to reinterpret Walden as a temporally layered text in light of the successive drafts of the book and the evidence of Thoreau's journals and contemporaneous writings; and, to overturn traditional views of Thoreau's 'decline' by offering a new estimate of the post-Walden writing and its place within Thoreau's development.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9780521068369
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:260
Uitgever:Cambridge University Press
Serie:Cambridge Studies in
Inhoudsopgave
Part I. 1837–49: 1. 'A false position in society'; 2. 'Under the eyelids of time': A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; Part II. 1845–54: 3. Disconstructing Walden; 4. Walden and the rhetoric of ascent; 5. Interregnum (1849–52); 6. Defying gravity; Part III. 1854–62: 7. 'A point of interest somewhere between' (1854–7); 8. 'Annexing new territories' (1857–62); Notes; Index.