03249nam 2200565Ia 450 991081095790332120200520144314.01-281-36727-397866113672751-4039-7353-9(CKB)1000000000342785(MiAaPQ)EBC308015(EXLCZ)99100000000034278520040928d2005 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierOur common dwelling Henry Thoreau, transcendentalism, and the class politics of nature /Lance Newman1st ed.New York Palgrave Macmillan20051 online resource (263 pages)1-349-53022-0 1-4039-6779-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-245) and index.Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 The Commitments of Ecocriticism -- Chapter 2 The Nature of Cultural History -- Chapter 3 Class Struggle in New England -- Chapter 4 Transcendentalism as a Social Movement -- Chapter 5 Nathaniel Hawthorne, Democracy, and the Mob -- Chapter 6 Margaret Fuller, Rock River, and the Condition of America -- Chapter 7 William Wordsworth in New England and the Discipline of Nature -- Chapter 8 William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, and the Poetry of Nature -- Chapter 9 Ralph Waldo Emerson, Orestes Brownson, and Transcendentalism -- Chapter 10 Transcendentalist Reformers, Scholars, and Nature -- Chapter 11 Brook Farm and Association -- Chapter 12 Capitalism and the Moral Geography of Walden -- Chapter 13 Walden, Association, and Organic Idealism -- Chapter 14 Nature, Politics, and Thoreau's Materialism -- Chapter 15 Wild Fruits, Capitalism, and Community -- Chapter 16 Ecocriticism and the Uses of Nature Writing -- Chapter 17 Marxism, Nature, and the Discipline of History -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.Our Common Dwelling explores why America's first literary circle turned to nature in the 1830s and '40s, showing that when the Transcendentalists spiritualized the landscape, they were reacting to intense class conflict in the industrializing cities of New England.Politics and literatureNew EnglandHistory19th centuryLiterature and societyNew EnglandHistory19th centurySocial classesNew EnglandHistory19th centuryTranscendentalism (New England)Social classes in literatureNature in literatureNew EnglandSocial conditionsPolitics and literatureHistoryLiterature and societyHistorySocial classesHistoryTranscendentalism (New England)Social classes in literature.Nature in literature.818/.309Newman Lance1085075MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810957903321Our common dwelling4109733UNINA