Thoreau at 200: Essays and Reassessments
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- Synopsis
- Henry David Thoreau's thinking about a number of ​issues - including the relationship between humans and other species, just responses to state violence, the threat posed to human freedom by industrial capitalism, and the essential relation between scientific 'facts' and poetic 'truths' - speaks to our historical moment as clearly as it did to the 'restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century' into which he was born. This volume, marking the two-hundredth anniversary of Thoreau's birth, gathers the threads of the contemporary, interdisciplinary conversation around this key figure in literary, political, philosophical, and environmental thought, uniting new essays by scholars who have shaped the field with chapters by emerging scholars investigating previously underexplored aspects of Thoreau's life, writings, and activities. Both a dispatch from the front lines of Thoreau scholarship and a vivid demonstration of Thoreau's relevance for twenty-first-century life and thought, Thoreau at 200 will be of interest for both Thoreau scholars and general readers. Provides readers with essays representative of the latest and best work of a number of distinguished Thoreau scholars. Re-evaluates both Thoreau's own life and thought, and the scholarship they have attracted in the past. Accessible to the non-academic reader, while at the same time remaining intellectually rigorous and engaging for Thoreau specialists.
- Copyright:
- 2016
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781316789247
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 11/10/17
- Copyrighted By:
- Cambridge University Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Philosophy, Politics and Government
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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