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Author : James McIntosh
Publisher : Ithaca : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Thoreau as Romantic Naturalist written by James McIntosh and published by Ithaca : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James S. Finley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108500978
Total Pages : 655 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Henry David Thoreau in Context written by James S. Finley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well known for his contrarianism and solitude, Henry David Thoreau was nonetheless deeply responsive to the world around him. His writings bear the traces of his wide-ranging reading, travels, political interests, and social influences. Henry David Thoreau in Context brings together leading scholars of Thoreau and nineteenth-century American literature and culture and presents original research, valuable synthesis of historical and scholarly sources, and innovative readings of Thoreau's texts. Across thirty-four chapters, this collection reveals a Thoreau deeply concerned with and shaped by a diverse range of environments, intellectual traditions, social issues, and modes of scientific practice. Essays also illuminate important posthumous contexts and consider the specific challenges of contextualizing Thoreau today. This collection provides a rich understanding of Thoreau and nineteenth-century American literature, political activism, and environmentalist thinking that will be a vital resource for students, teachers, scholars, and general readers.
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Walden written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : James McIntosh
Publisher : Ithaca : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Thoreau as Romantic Naturalist written by James McIntosh and published by Ithaca : Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lawrence Buell
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674262433
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Environmental Imagination written by Lawrence Buell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-01 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the environmental crisis comes a crisis of the imagination, a need to find new ways to understand nature and humanity's relation to it. This is the challenge Lawrence Buell takes up in The Environmental Imagination, the most ambitious study to date of how literature represents the natural environment. With Thoreau's Walden as a touchstone, Buell gives us a far-reaching account of environmental perception, the place of nature in the history of western thought, and the consequences for literary scholarship of attempting to imagine a more "ecocentric" way of being. In doing so, he provides a major new understanding of Thoreau's achievement and, at the same time, a profound rethinking of our literary and cultural reflections on nature. The green tradition in American writing commands Buell's special attention, particularly environmental nonfiction from colonial times to the present. In works by writers from Crevecoeur to Wendell Berry, John Muir to Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson to Leslie Silko, Mary Austin to Edward Abbey, he examines enduring environmental themes such as the dream of relinquishment, the personification of the nonhuman, an attentiveness to environmental cycles, a devotion to place, and a prophetic awareness of possible ecocatastrophe. At the center of this study we find an image of Walden as a quest for greater environmental awareness, an impetus and guide for Buell as he develops a new vision of environmental writing and seeks a new way of conceiving the relation between human imagination and environmental actuality in the age of industrialization. Intricate and challenging in its arguments, yet engagingly and elegantly written, The Environmental Imagination is a major work of scholarship, one that establishes a new basis for reading American nature writing.
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Walden written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wallace Kaufman
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Coming Out Of The Woods written by Wallace Kaufman and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2000-05-31 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully written, unsentimental account that challenges our Thoreauvian romance with nature and offers the conclusion that in civilization is the preservation of the wildness that we cherish.
Author : Dewey W. Hall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317061500
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Romantic Naturalists, Early Environmentalists written by Dewey W. Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his study of Romantic naturalists and early environmentalists, Dewey W. Hall asserts that William Wordsworth and Ralph Waldo Emerson were transatlantic literary figures who were both influenced by the English naturalist Gilbert White. In Part 1, Hall examines evidence that as Romantic naturalists interested in meteorology, Wordsworth and Emerson engaged in proto-environmental activity that drew attention to the potential consequences of the locomotive's incursion into Windermere and Concord. In Part 2, Hall suggests that Wordsworth and Emerson shaped the early environmental movement through their work as poets-turned-naturalists, arguing that Wordsworth influenced Octavia Hill’s contribution to the founding of the United Kingdom’s National Trust in 1895, while Emerson inspired John Muir to spearhead the United States’ National Parks movement in 1890. Hall’s book traces the connection from White as a naturalist-turned-poet to Muir as the quintessential early environmental activist who camped in Yosemite with President Theodore Roosevelt. Throughout, Hall raises concerns about the growth of industrialization to make a persuasive case for literature's importance to the rise of environmentalism.
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775412466
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (754 download)
Download or read book Civil Disobedience written by Henry David Thoreau and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Sam McGuire Worley
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791448250
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)
Download or read book Emerson, Thoreau, and the Role of the Cultural Critic written by Sam McGuire Worley and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reinterprets important works of the social criticism of Emerson and Thoreau as being based in defense of community.
Author : Joel Myerson
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 9781878822727
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (227 download)
Download or read book Emersonian Circles written by Joel Myerson and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The enormous critical resurgence of interest in Ralph Waldo Emerson over the past fifteen years has restored the `Sage of Concord' to his former role as an American icon. At the same time, this renewed interest raises old historical and critical questions about his place in American Transcendentalism, and in American culture generally. This collection of essays seeks to address the variety of critical questions about Emerson and to reevaluate his significance through his own metaphors of insight and influence, particularly that of the `circle'.ROBERT E. BURKHOLDER is Associate Professor of English at the Pennsylvania State University; WESLEY T. MOTTis Professor of English at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Contributors: ROBERT A. GROSS, ALBERT J. VON FRANK, LEN GOUGEON, RONALD A. BOSCO, FRANK SHUFFELTON, PHYLLIS COLE, ROBERT D. RICHARDSON JR, DAVID M. ROBINSON, DANIEL SHEALY, HELEN R. DEESE, KENT P. LJUNGQUIST, GARY L. COLLISON, PHILIP F. GURA
Author : Alfred I. Tauber
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520239156
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing written by Alfred I. Tauber and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tauber's book is encyclopedic—not only a revealing and comprehensive study of Thoreau but also a full vision of the Romantic Weltanschauung and its relevance to contemporary concerns in philosophy, science, and poetics. While this scope is wildly ambitious, Tauber admirably delivers, always informing his parts with the whole, consistently altering the whole with his parts."—Eric Wilson, author of Emerson's Sublime Science "In arguing for the centrally moral and ethical value of Thoreau's works, Tauber is taking a brave stance in these slippery postmodern times…. It's one thing to praise Thoreau for his opposition to the Mexican War, his philosophy of passive resistance, and his fervent opposition to slavery. It's quite another to argue that his entire project—his whole sense of identity, self-formation, and his relation to nature—is part of a deeply moral enterprise….Thoreau's modernity has been defined in many ways in recent years. Tauber adds another important and distinctive dimension to this discussion."—H. Daniel Peck, John Guy Vassar Professor of English, Vassar College
Author : Sujata Gurudev
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN 13 : 9788126906673
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (66 download)
Download or read book American Literature Studies on Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville and Whitman written by Sujata Gurudev and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Present Book Attempts To Bring Before The Reading Public An In-Depth Analysis Of The Literary Scenario Of 19Th Century America, Focusing Mainly On Diverse Literary Talents From Men Of Letters Like Emerson And Thoreau, To Novelists Like Hawthorne And Melville, To The Prophetic Vision Of Whitman.The Period Being One Of The Richest In American History, Saw The Flowering Of A Rare Breed Of Humanism Where An All Out Attempt Was Made To Understand The Egoistic And Altruistic Motives In Man. Transcendentalism Was The Crowning Glory Of Such An Attempt. While The Dark Shadow Of Puritanism Cast Over Hawthorne S Fiction An Uneasy Shadow, Melville Passionately Denounced In Fictional Terms The Duplicity Of What He Termed As Divine Depravity . Whitman Celebrated The Word En-Masse Or The Divine Average. Thoreau Likewise Walked Past The Walden Pond With A Naturalistic Zeal Attempting To Come To Terms With Nature Red In Tooth And Claw .The Book Attempts To Wade Through A Bewildering Literary Maze In An Attempt To Highlight Not Merely The Literary Figures Of The Age, Their Celebrated Works, But Also The Reasons Behind The Flowering Of Genius. Replete With In-Depth Critical Research, The Present Book Will Serve As An Ideal Reference Book On American Literature. Both Students And Teachers Of The Subject Will Find It Equally Useful And Indispensable.
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (781 download)
Download or read book Walden or Life in the woods written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers written by Henry David Thoreau and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Peterson Del Mar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317861051
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Environmentalism written by David Peterson Del Mar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are our environmental problems still growing despite a huge increase in global conservation efforts? Peterson del Mar untangles this paradox by showing how prosperity is essential to environmentalism. Industrialization drove people to look for meaning in nature even as they consumed its products more relentlessly. Hence England led the way in both manufacturing and preserving its countryside, and the United States created a matchless set of national parks as it became the world's pre-eminent economic and military power. Environmental movements have produced some impressive results, including cleaner air and the preservation of selected species and places. But agendas that challenged western prosperity and comfort seldom made much progress, and many radical environmentalists have been unabashed utopianists. Environmentalism considers a wide range of conservation and preservation movements and less organized forms of nature loving (from seaside vacations to ecotourism) to argue that these activities have commonly distracted us from the hard work of creating a sustainable and sensible relationship with the environment.
Author : Michael Benjamin Berger
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571131683
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (316 download)
Download or read book Thoreau's Late Career and The Dispersion of Seeds written by Michael Benjamin Berger and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It demonstrates that in his late career Thoreau was working as scientist and poet simultaneously. This study further explorers how Thoreau managed the philosophical and rhetorical tensions involved in bridging the supposed gap between science and poetry, and how, in his later career, he embraced the empirical method of scientific discovery while challenging the reductive assumptions of scientific materialism."--BOOK JACKET.
