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Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays
, 2002This volume of seven essays and a late lecture by Henry David Thoreau makes available important material written both before and after "Walden". First appearing in the 1840s, through to the 1860s, the essays were written during a time of great change in ...
H. Thoreau
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Thoreau's account of his 1839 boat trip is a finely crafted tapestry of travel writing, essays, and lyrical poetry. Thoreau interweaves descriptions of natural phenomena, the rural landscape, and local characters with digressions on literature and ...
H. Thoreau
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On Your Genius: Spiritual Intelligence and Ecological Cybernetics in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden
The Criticism and Theory Society of KoreaThis study reinterprets the concept of genius embodied in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden through the theoretical frameworks of spiritual intelligence and ecological cybernetics, aiming to explore new modes of life that foster becoming oneself and the ...
Jaesik Chung
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Zeitschrift für Anglistik and Amerikanistik
This article reads Henry David Thoreau’s A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers through a Blue Humanities perspective. It shows how Thoreau’s first book derives its narrative structure, language, and ideas from wet matter and how the river turns into
Caroline Rosenthal
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This article reads Henry David Thoreau’s A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers through a Blue Humanities perspective. It shows how Thoreau’s first book derives its narrative structure, language, and ideas from wet matter and how the river turns into
Caroline Rosenthal
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Quebec Studies
:En mars 2020, Louis Hamelin, écrivain québécois associé au genre du nature writing, raconte, dans Le Devoir, son rapport à la pandémie en relisant Henry David Thoreau: il le considère comme « une sorte de prophète de la “distanciation physique” » (2020a)
Juliette Janelle
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:En mars 2020, Louis Hamelin, écrivain québécois associé au genre du nature writing, raconte, dans Le Devoir, son rapport à la pandémie en relisant Henry David Thoreau: il le considère comme « une sorte de prophète de la “distanciation physique” » (2020a)
Juliette Janelle
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2018
Henry David Thoreau (b. 1817–d. 1862) is best known as the author of Walden (1854), a pivotal work in American nature writing, and “Civil Disobedience” (1849), an influential call to resist war and slavery. Soon after graduating from Harvard College in 1836, Thoreau was befriended by Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose Nature (1836) depicted the natural world ...
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Henry David Thoreau (b. 1817–d. 1862) is best known as the author of Walden (1854), a pivotal work in American nature writing, and “Civil Disobedience” (1849), an influential call to resist war and slavery. Soon after graduating from Harvard College in 1836, Thoreau was befriended by Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose Nature (1836) depicted the natural world ...
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2012
Henry David Thoreau (b. 1817–d. 1862) was given the name David Henry at birth, outside Concord, Massachusetts, on the farm of his maternal grandmother. In 1833, he entered Harvard College, and he graduated in 1837, the year Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered his Phi Beta Kappa address on “The American Scholar” (though Thoreau’s attendance at the event is ...
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Henry David Thoreau (b. 1817–d. 1862) was given the name David Henry at birth, outside Concord, Massachusetts, on the farm of his maternal grandmother. In 1833, he entered Harvard College, and he graduated in 1837, the year Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered his Phi Beta Kappa address on “The American Scholar” (though Thoreau’s attendance at the event is ...
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2004
Henry David Thoreau shared with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other transcendentalists an ideal of manhood grounded in scholarly activity, self-awareness, and self-reliance. More radical in his advocacy of dissent, Thoreau espoused an environmentally conscious definition of manhood that encompassed, at least in part, the tenets of capitalism. Whereas Emerson
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Henry David Thoreau shared with Ralph Waldo Emerson and other transcendentalists an ideal of manhood grounded in scholarly activity, self-awareness, and self-reliance. More radical in his advocacy of dissent, Thoreau espoused an environmentally conscious definition of manhood that encompassed, at least in part, the tenets of capitalism. Whereas Emerson
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2008
The volume features essays and criticism on Thoreau from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that offer students historical insights into Thoreau and his ...
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The volume features essays and criticism on Thoreau from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that offer students historical insights into Thoreau and his ...
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