Our Common Dwelling

Henry Thoreau, Transcendentalism, and the Class Politics of Nature
2005
ISBN: 978-0-230-60244-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 255 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

OurCommonDwelling explores why America's first literary circle turned to nature in the 1830s and '40s. When the New England Transcendentalists spiritualized nature, they were reacting to intense class conflict in the region's industrializing cities. Their goal was to find a secular foundation for their social authority as an intellectual elite. New England Transcendentalism engages with works by William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others. The works of these great authors, interpreted in historical context, show that both environmental exploitation and conscious love of nature co-evolved as part of the historical development of American capitalism.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Newman, Lance

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Ecocriticism and Crisis Ecocriticism and Determination Materialism and Transcendentalism Class Conflict in New England Nathaniel Hawthorne's Democracy William Wordsworth in New England Utopia Revisited The Discipline of Nature William Wordsworth and Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau as Poet Orestes Brownson's Democracy William Wordsworth and Ecocriticism Radical Transcendentalism Reformers and Scholars The Moral Geography of Walden Brook Farm and Association Walden and Association The Law of Organic Regeneration Thoreau and Ecocriticism Margaret Fuller and the Condition of America Margaret Fuller's Vision Marxism and Nature The Discipline of History

Über Autor(innen)

LANCE NEWMAN is Assistant Professor of Literature and Writing Studies at California State University, USA, where he teaches courses in early American literature, environmental literature, and creative writing. He is co-editor of , and . His scholarly essays have appeared in , and .