The Cambridge companion to Henry David Thoreau / / edited by Joel Myerson [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1995
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 224 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 818/.309
• Persona (resp. second.): MyersonJoel
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
• Nota di contenuto: Thoreau's reputation / Walter Harding -- Thoreau and Concord / Robert D. Richardson, Jr. -- Thoreau and Emerson / Robert Sattelmeyer -- "A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers" / Linck C. Johnson -- Thoreau as poet / Elizabeth Hall Witherell -- Thoreau and his audience / Steven Fink -- "Walden" / Richard J. Schneider -- Thoreau in his Journal / Leonard N. Neufeldt -- "The Maine woods" / Joseph J. Moldenhauer -- "A wild, rank place": Thoreau's Cape Cod / Philip F. Gura -- Thoreau's later natural history writings / Ronald Wesley Hoag -- Thoreau and the natural environment / Lawrence Buell --Thoreau and reform / Len Gougeon.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Cambridge companion to Henry David Thoreau
• ISBN: 1-139-81528-8; 1-139-00021-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996216694103316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Cambridge companions to literature.