Seeing new worlds [[electronic resource] ] : Henry David Thoreau and nineteenth-century natural science / / Laura Dassow Walls

• Autore: Walls Laura Dassow
• Pubblicazione: Madison WI, : University of Wisconsin Press, c1995
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 300 pages)
• Soggetto topico: Literature and science - United States - History - 19th century; Natural history - United States - History - 19th century; Science in literature; Nature in literature
• Soggetto geografico: United States Intellectual life 19th century
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-293) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Facts and Truth: Transcendental Science from Cambridge to Concord -- Nominalists, Realists, Idealists: Harvard and After, 1837 -- Romantic Theologies -- Natural History before Walden -- 2. The Empire of Thought and the Republic of Particulars -- Law as Logos -- Rational Holism -- The Organic Machine: Making Matter Mind -- Emergent Laws -- Empirical Holism -- 3. Seeing New Worlds: Thoreau and Humboldtian Science -- Alexander von Humboldt, the "Napoleon of Science" -- Fronting Nature at Walden, 1845-1847 -- After Walden: Old Worlds and New -- 4. Cosmos: Knowing as Worlding -- Thoreau as Humboldtian -- Relational Knowing: Thoreau's Epistemology of Contact -- Writing the Cosmos: Walden -- 5. A Plurality of Worlds -- Intentions of the Eye -- Worlds without End: The Dispersion of Seeds -- The Transcendentalist at the Cattle Show: Thoreau's Ironic Science -- 6. Walking the Holy Land -- Contingent Wholes: A Few Herbs and Apples -- Chance and Necessity: The Laughter of the Loon -- "Walking, or the Wild" -- Conclusion: Disciplining Thoreau -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Seeing new worlds
• ISBN: 1-282-42408-4; 9786612424083; 0-299-14743-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248172103316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Science and literature.