| Title |
Thoreau's sense of place : essays in American environmental writing / edited by Richard J. Schneider ; foreword by Lawrence Buell. |
| OCLC |
42888080 |
| ISBN |
0877457085 (acid-free paper) |
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0877457204 (pbk.) |
| Publisher |
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2000] |
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©2000 |
| Description |
x, 310 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm. |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Knowledge -- Natural history.
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Influence.
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Environmental protection -- United States -- History.
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American literature -- History and criticism.
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Natural history -- United States -- History.
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Environmental protection in literature.
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Place (Philosophy) in literature.
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Nature in literature.
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Setting (Literature)
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Environmental protection.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-300) and index. |
| Contents |
Believing in nature : wilderness and wildness in Thoreauvian science / Laura Dassow Walls -- Thoreau's transcendental ecocentrism / William Rossi -- "Climate does thus react on man" : wildness and geographic determinism in Thoreau's "Walking" / Richard J. Schneider -- "In search of a more human nature" : Wendell Berry's revision of Thoreau's experiment / Ted Olson -- Water-signs : place and metaphor in Dillard and Thoreau / James A. Papa, Jr. -- Written world : place and history in Thoreau's "A Walk to Wachusett" / David M. Robinson -- Thoreau, Thomas Cole, and Asher Durand : composing the American landscape / Isaiah Smithson. |
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Reading home : Thoreau, literature, and the phenomenon of inhabitation / Peter Blakemore -- Seeing the west side of any mountain : Thoreau and contemporary ecological poetry / J. Scott Bryson -- Ten ways of seeing landscapes in Walden and beyond / James G. McGrath -- Sauntering in the industrial wilderness / Bernard W. Quetchenbach -- Walden, Rural Hours, and the dilemma of representation / Rochelle Johnson -- Wordsworth and Thoreau : two versions of pastoral / Greg Garrard -- Humanity as "a part and parcel of nature" : a comparative study of Thoreau's and Taoist concepts of nature / Aimin Cheng -- Speaking for nature : Thoreau and the "problem" of "nature writing" / Nancy Craig Simmons -- Depopulation, deforestation, and the actual Walden Pond / Robert Sattelmeyer -- Skirting Lowell : the exceptional work of nature in A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Stephen Germic -- Rustling Thoreau's cattle : wildness and domesticity in "Walking" / Barbara "Barney" Nelson -- Counter frictions : writing and activism in the work of Abbey and Thoreau / Susan M. Lucas. |
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