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Thoreau in His Own Time : a Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates.
More than any other Transcendentalist of his time, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) embodied the full complement of the movement's ideals and vocations: author, advocate for self-reform, stern critic of society, abolitionist, philosopher, and naturalist. The Thoreau of our time - valorized anarc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Writers in their own time (University of Iowa Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | More than any other Transcendentalist of his time, Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) embodied the full complement of the movement's ideals and vocations: author, advocate for self-reform, stern critic of society, abolitionist, philosopher, and naturalist. The Thoreau of our time - valorized anarchist, founding environmentalist, and fervid advocate of civil disobedience - did not exist in the nineteenth century. In this rich and appealing collection, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis untangles Thoreau's multiple identities by offering a wide range of nineteenth-century comment. |
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| Notas: | Edward Waldo Emerson, From Henry Thoreau as Remembered by a Young Friend (1917). |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (315 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781609380977 1609380975 9781609380878 1609380878 |