Walden's Shore : Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Science /

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Walden's Shore explores Thoreau's understanding of the "living rock" on which life's complexity depends--not as metaphor but as physical science. Robert Thorson's subject is Thoreau the rock and mineral collector, interpreter of landscapes, and field scientist whose com...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thorson, Robert M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
Edición:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Temas:
Literature and science > United States > History > 19th century.
Nature in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • I THE PLACE OF THE BOOK
  • 1 ROCK REALITY
  • 2 LANDSCAPE OF LOSS
  • 3 THOREAU'S ARCTIC VISION
  • 4 AFTER THE DELUGE
  • 5 MELTDOWN TO BEAUTY
  • INTERLUDE
  • 6 THE WALDEN SYSTEM
  • II THE BOOK OF THE PLACE
  • 7 SENSING WALDEN
  • 8 WRITING WALDEN
  • 9 INTERPRETING WALDEN
  • 10 MYTHOLOGY
  • 11 SIMPLICITY
  • CONCLUSION
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • REFERENCES
  • REFERENCES
  • GLOSSARY
  • INDEX

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