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Civilizing Thoreau : human ecology and the emerging social sciences in the major works /
Recent book-length studies of Thoreau have focused either on his place in the history of the natural sciences or have applied political principles to his works. None, however, has fully addressed what ecocritic Rebecca Solnit calls "the Thoreau problem," the compartmentalizing of Thoreau&#...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester, New York :
Camden House,
2016.
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| Colección: | Mind and American literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Thoreau's Human ecology
- Thoreau and the emergence of the social services
- Thoreau, ecological succession, and racial science
- Part II. Self-culture and ecological survivorship in Walden and Reform papers
- Civilizing Walden
- Becoming one of the worthies of the world in Reform Papers
- Part III. History and ecological succession in Thoreau's travel narratives
- Succession in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
- "Presenting" the past in The Maine Woods
- Nature and the origins of American civilization in Cape Cod
- Part IV. America's destiny and ecological succession
- Thoreau and Manifest Destiny.