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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822438403321

Titolo

Thoreau's sense of place : essays in American environmental writing / / edited by Richard J. Schneider; foreword by Lawrence Buell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2000

ISBN

1-58729-311-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (325 p.)

Collana

The American land and life series

Altri autori (Persone)

SchneiderRichard J

Disciplina

818.309

818/.309

Soggetti

Environmental protection - United States - History

American literature - History and criticism

Natural history - United States - History

Environmental protection in literature

Place (Philosophy) in literature

Nature in literature

Setting (Literature)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-300) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Foreword by Lawrence Buell; Introduction; Believing in Nature Wilderness and Wildness in Thoreauvian Science laura dassow wa l l s; Thoreau's Transcendental Ecocentrism william r o s s i; ''Climate Does Thus React on Man'' Wildness and Geographic Determinism in Thoreau's ''Walking'' richard j . schneider; ''In Search of a More Human Nature'' Wendell Berry's Revision of Thoreau's Experiment ted olson; Water-Signs Place and Metaphor in Dillard and Thoreau james a . papa, j r .; The WrittenWorld Place and History in Thoreau's ''A Walk to Wachusett'' david m . robinson

Thoreau, Thomas Cole, and Asher Durand Composing the American Landscape i s a i a h smithsonReading Home Thoreau, Literature, and the Phenomenon of Inhabitation peter blakemore; Seeing the West Side of Any Mountain Thoreau and Contemporary Ecological Poetry j . scott bryson; TenWays of Seeing Landscapes in ""Walden"" and Beyond james g . mcgrath; Sauntering in the IndustrialWilderness bernard w. quetchenbach; ""Walden,"" ""Rural Hours,"" and the Dilemma of



Representation rochelle johnson; Wordsworth and Thoreau Two Versions of Pastoral greg garrard

Humanity as ''A Part and Parcel of Nature'' A Comparative Study of Thoreau's and Taoist Concepts of Nature aimin chengSpeaking for Nature Thoreau and the ''Problem'' of ''Nature Writing'' nancy craig simmons; Depopulation, Deforestation, and the ActualWalden Pond robert sattelmeyer; Skirting Lowell The ExceptionalWork of Nature inAWeek on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers stephen germic; Rustling Thoreau's Cattle Wildness and Domesticity in ''Walking'' barbara "barney" nelson; Counter Frictions Writing and Activism in the Work of Abbey and Thoreau susan m . lucas; contributors; works cited

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Sommario/riassunto

Recent Thoreau studies have shifted to an emphasis on the green"" Thoreau, on Thoreau the environmentalist, rooted firmly in particular places and interacting with particular objects. In the wake of Buell's Environmental Imagination, the nineteen essayists in this challenging volume address the central questions in Thoreau studies today: how ""green,"" how immersed in a sense of place, was Thoreau really, and how has this sense of place affected the tradition of nature writing in America?