Buch, Englisch, Band 85, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 427 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 85, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 427 g
Reihe: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
ISBN: 978-0-521-06836-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
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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Part I. 1837-1849: 1. 'A False Position in Society'; 2. 'Under the Eyelids of Time': A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; Part II. 1845-1854: 1. Disconstructing Walden; 2. Walden and the Rhetoric of Ascent; 3. Interregnum (1849-1852); 4. Defying Gravity; Part III. 1854-1862: 1. 'A Point of Interest Somewhere Between' (1854-57); 2. 'Annexing New Territories' (1857-1862).
