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Author : John Aldrich Christie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Thoreau written by John Aldrich Christie and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Aldrich Christie
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231028332
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (283 download)
Download or read book Thoreau as World Traveler written by John Aldrich Christie and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of the travelers who delighted Thoreau and of Thoreau's use of travel experiences in his writings.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Mentor-world Traveler written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Sattelmeyer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400859638
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Thoreau's Reading written by Robert Sattelmeyer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoreau's Reading charts Henry Thoreau's intellectual growth and its relation to his literary career from 1833, when he entered Harvard College, to his death in 1862. It also furnishes a catalogue of nearly fifteen hundred entries of his reading, compiled from references and allusions in his published writings, journal, correspondence, library charging records, the catalogue of his personal library, and his many unpublished notebooks and commonplace books. This record suggests his literary and intellectual development as a youth primarily interested in classical and early English literature, who matured as a writer investigating contemporary and classical natural science, the history of the European discovery and exploration of North America, and the history of native Americans. The catalogue provides bibliographical data for, and lists all Thoreau's references to, the books and articles that he read. The introductory essay traces the shifts in his literary career marked in the chronology of his reading. The book reveals a Thoreau who was deeply interested in and conversant with the major intellectual questions of his times and whose stance of withdrawal from his age masked a lively involvement with many of its most perplexing questions. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : David K. Leff
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587298392
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Deep Travel written by David K. Leff and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the hot summer of 2004, David Leff floated away from the routine of daily life just as Henry David Thoreau and his brother had done in their own small boat in 1839. Fortified with Thoreau’s observations as revealed in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Leff brought his own concept of mindful deep travel to these same New England waterways. His first-person narrative uses his ecological way of looking, of going deep rather than far, to show that our outward journeys are inseparable from our inward ones. How we see depends on where we are in our lives and with whom we travel. Leff chose his companions wisely. In consecutive journeys his neighbor and friend Alan, a veteran city planner; his son Josh, an energetic eleven-year-old; and his sweetheart Pamela, a compassionate professional caregiver, added their perspectives to Leff’s own experiences as a government official in natural resources policy. Not so much sight seeing as sight seeking, together they explored a geography of the imagination as well as the rich natural and human histories of the rivers and their communities. The heightened awareness of deep travel demands that we immerse ourselves fully in places and realize that they exist in time as well as space. Its mindfulness enriches the experience and makes the voyager worthy of the journey. Leff’s intriguing, contemplative deep travel along these historic rivers presents a methodology for exploration that will enrich any trip.
Author : Malcolm Clemens Young
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 088146158X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (814 download)
Download or read book The Spiritual Journal of Henry David Thoreau written by Malcolm Clemens Young and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people who care about nature cannot help but use religious language to describe their experience. We can trace many of these conceptions of nature and holiness directly to influential nineteenth-century writers, especially Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862). In Walden, he writes that "God himself culminates in the present moment," and that in nature we encounter, "the workman whose work we are." But what were the sources of his religious convictions about the meaning of nature in human life?
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 : Richard J. Schneider
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571139605
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Civilizing Thoreau written by Richard J. Schneider and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 7: Nature and the Origins of American Civilization in Cape Cod -- Part IV. America's Destiny and Ecological Succession -- 8: Thoreau and Manifest Destiny -- Works Cited -- Index
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : North Point Press
ISBN 13 : 9781429935074
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau written by Henry David Thoreau and published by North Point Press. This book was released on 2002-05-05 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoreau's major essays annotated and introduced by one of our most vital intellectuals. With The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau, Lewis Hyde gathers thirteen of Thoreau's finest short prose works and, for the first time in 150 years, presents them fully annotated and arranged in the order of their composition. This definitive edition includes Thoreau's most famous essays, "Civil Disobedience" and "Walking," along with lesser-known masterpieces such as "Wild Apples," "The Last Days of John Brown," and an account of his 1846 journey into the Maine wilderness to climb Mount Katahdin, an essay that ends on a unique note of sublimity and terror. Hyde diverges from the long-standing and dubious editorial custom of separating Thoreau's politics from his interest in nature, a division that has always obscured the ways in which the two are constantly entwined. "Natural History of Massachusetts" begins not with fish and birds but with a dismissal of the political world, and "Slavery in Massachusetts" ends with a meditation on the water lilies blooming on the Concord River. Thoreau's ideal reader was expected to be well versed in Greek and Latin, poetry and travel narrative, and politically engaged in current affairs. Hyde's detailed annotations clarify many of Thoreau's references and re-create the contemporary context wherein the nation's westward expansion was bringing to a head the racial tensions that would result in the Civil War.
Author : H. Daniel Peck
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300061048
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Thoreau's Morning Work written by H. Daniel Peck and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and Walden, the only works Thoreau conceived and brought to conclusion as books, bear a distinctively important relation to each other and to his Journal, the document whose twenty-four-year composition encompasses their development. In a brilliant new book, H. Daniel Peck shows how these three works engage one another dialectically and how all of them participate in a larger project of imagination. "Morning work," a phrase from Walden, is the name Peck gives to this larger project. by it he means the work done by memory and perception as they act to shape Thoreau's emerging vision of a harmonious universe. Peck argues that the changing balance of memory and perception in the three works defines the unique literary character of each of them. He offers a major reevaluation of Walden, which he sees neither as the epitome of Thoreau's career (the traditional view) nor as an anomaly (the recent, revisionary view). Rather, he sees Walden as a pivotal work, reflecting the issues of loss and remembrance that earlier had found prominent expression in A Week and prefiguring the late Journal's vision of natural order. Focusing on the two-million-word Journal, Peck provides the first critical analysis that defines the essential forces and the imaginative coherence in its vast discursiveness. The consideration of memory and perception in Thoreau also leads peck to the issue of the writer's modernity, and he explores the ways in which Thoreau anticipates twentieth-century thought, especially in the works of such great objectivist philosophers as William James and Alfred North Whitehead.
Author : Lawrence Buell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197684262
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Henry David Thoreau written by Lawrence Buell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond..." Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was a leading figure in the American Transcendentalist movement and the era of U. S. literary emergence, an intellectual with worldwide influence as essayist, social thinker, naturalist-environmentalist, and sage. Thoreau's Walden, an autobiographical narrative of his two-year sojourn in a self-built lakeside cabin, is one of the most widely studied works of American literature. It has generated scores of literary imitations and thousands of neo-Walden experiments in back-to-basics living, both rural and urban. Thoreau's great essay, "Civil Disobedience," is a classic of American political activism and a model for nonviolent reform movements around the world. Thoreau also stands as an icon of modern American environmentalism, the father of American nature writing, a forerunner of modern ecology, and a harbinger of freelance spirituality combining the wisdom of west and east. Thoreau is also a controversial figure. From his day to ours, he has provoked sharply opposite reactions ranging from reverence to dismissal. Scholars have regularly offered conflicting assessments of the significance of his work, the evolution of his thought, even the facts of his life. Some disagreements are in the eye of the beholder, but many follow from challenges posed by his own cross-grained idiosyncrasies. He was an advocate for individual self-sufficiency who never broke away from home, a self-professed mystic now also acclaimed as a pioneer natural and applied scientist, and a seminal theorist of nonviolent protest who defended the most notorious guerrilla fighter of his day. All told, he remains a rather enigmatic figure both despite and because we know so much about him, beginning with the two-million-word journal he kept throughout his adult life. The esteemed Thoreau scholar Lawrence Buell gives due consideration to all these aspects of Thoreau's art and thought, framing key issues and complexities in historical and literary context.
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231103886
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Simplify, Simplify and Other Quotations from Henry David Thoreau written by Henry David Thoreau and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . Simplify, Simplify distills Thoreau's massive body of work into 750 of his most profound ideas on subjects ranging from the ecology movement to English literature, from Confucius to John Milton.
Author : Joel Myerson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139825135
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau written by Joel Myerson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is intended as an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting essays by a distinguished array of contributors, the Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings like A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, on the monumental Walden, or on his assorted journals and later books. It also serves in some ways as a biographical guide, offering new insights into his turbulent publishing career, and his brief but extraordinarily original life. In short, the Companion helps the reader come to Thoreau's writings, as he would say, 'deliberately and reservedly' by suggesting how Thoreau uses language, how his biography informs his writing, how personal and historical influences shaped his career, and how his writings function as literary works.
Author : K. P. Van Anglen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107094291
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Thoreau at 200 written by K. P. Van Anglen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers essays on central themes of Thoreau's life, work and critical reception, by both well-known and emerging scholars.
Author : John Dolis
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838640456
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Tracking Thoreau written by John Dolis and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing against the most recent trend in Thoreau studies, Dolis contends that, for Thoreau, nature is primordially a construct; it cannot be understood apart from language, through cultural constructions, techniques by means of which the subject composes the object. Both "nature" and the very "nature of nature" itself are subject to this single configuration. Subjectivity, in turn, entails its own technology, its style. It figures out both nature and the composition of its self as well."--Jacket.
Author : Brian Harding
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315535882
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)
Download or read book American Literature in Context written by Brian Harding and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published between 1982 and 1983, this series examines the peculiarly American cultural context out of which the nation’s literature has developed. Covering the years from 1830 to 1865, this second volume of American Literature in Context examines twelve major American writers of the three decades before the Civil War, including Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville and Walt Whitman. The book also analyses the writing of two contemporary historians, an intellectual Journalist and Abraham Lincoln. Among the major themes discussed the religious heritage of New England Transcendentalism, sectional rivalries, tensions between self-culture and social awareness, and the widening gulf between the idea of national destiny and the fact of growing disunity. In addition, the dominant literary forms of the period – sermon, essay, travelogue – are related to the common cultural assumptions of the age. This book will be of interest to those studying American literature and American studies.
Author : Leonard Neufeldt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195057899
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Economist written by Leonard Neufeldt and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major study examines Thoreau's participation in the economic discourse of his time and place. It focuses on cultural conditions in the time of Thoreau, his awareness of them, and his responses to them as a literary artist who identified his writing as his vocation.
