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Title Thoreau's sense of place : essays in American environmental writing / edited by Richard J. Schneider ; foreword by Lawrence Buell.

Publication Info. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2000]
©2000

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Description 1 online resource (x, 310 pages) : illustrations, map.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The American land and life series
American land and life series.
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.
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.
Summary Recent Thoreau studies have shifted to an emphasis on the green" Thoreau, on Thoreau the environmentalist, rooted firmly in particular places and interacting with particular objects. In the wake of Buell's Environmental Imagination, the nineteen essayists in this challenging volume address the central questions in Thoreau studies today: how "green," how immersed in a sense of place, was Thoreau really, and how has this sense of place affected the tradition of nature writing in America?
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Subject Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Knowledge and learning -- Natural history.
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Natural history.
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Influence.
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Knowledge -- Natural history -- Influence.
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Et les sciences naturelles.
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Et la protection de l'environnement.
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Influence.
Environmental protection -- United States -- History.
Environmental protection.
United States.
History.
American literature -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Natural history -- United States -- History.
Environmental protection in literature.
Environmental protection in literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Place (Philosophy) in literature.
Nature in literature.
Nature in literature.
Setting (Literature)
Setting (Literature)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Subject Environmental protection.
Added Author Schneider, Richard J.
Other Form: Print version: Thoreau's sense of place. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2000 0877457085 (DLC) 99058112
ISBN 1587293110 (electronic book)
9781587293115 (electronic book)
0877457085 (acid-free paper)
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0877457204 (paperback)
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