Thoreau's Fable of Inscribing /

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Early in Thoreau's career, he became obsessed with the problem of getting to be at home in the world. This ambitious book relates that obsession to his way of fostering at-homeness: "inscribing" himself not only through words but through such occupations as the making of books, houses...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Garber, Frederick (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1991]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862.
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862. > Week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers.
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862 > Criticism and interpretation.
Week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers (Thoreau, Henry David)
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 Words, Institutions, Hierarchies
  • 2 Writing, Subtext, Scene
  • 3 Inscribing
  • 4 Autographical Acts
  • 5 A Space for Saddleback
  • 6 Writing Home
  • 7 A Sense of Hierarchy
  • 8 Origins and Ends
  • Notes
  • Index.

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