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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thorson, Robert M., 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862. > Walden.
Walden (Thoreau, Henry David)
1800-1899
Literature and science > United States > History > 19th century.
Nature in literature.
Littérature et sciences > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Nature dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geology.
Literature and science
Nature in literature
Walden Woods (Mass.)
Massachusetts > Walden Woods
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Rock reality
  • Landscape of loss
  • Thoreau's Arctic vision
  • After the deluge
  • Meltdown to beauty
  • The Walden system
  • Sensing Walden
  • Writing Walden
  • Interpreting Walden
  • Mythology
  • Simplicity.

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