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Reimagining Thoreau
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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 1...
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.
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- Creator
- Robert Milder
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 237 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
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- ISBNs
- 9780511895883, 9780521461498, 9780521068369, 9780521461498
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- pt. I. 1837-1849. 1. "A False Position in Society" 2. "Under the Eyelids of Time": A week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers -- pt. II. 1845-1854. 3. Disconstructing Walden. 4. Walden and the Rhetoric of Ascent. 5. Interregnum (1849-1852). 6. Defying Gravity (1852-1854) -- pt. III. 1854-1862. 7. "A Point of Interest Somewhere Between" (1854-1857). 8. "Annexing New Territories" (1857-1862)