Joel Myerson (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau

Herausgeber: Joel, Myerson; Myerson, Joel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Cambridge Companion To Henry David Thoreau is intended as an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. A diverse array of contributors creates a valuable resource for historical and contextual material on the monumental 'Walden, ' early writings like A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, and the journals and later books. The Companion also serves as a biographical guide, offering new insights into Thoreau's turbulent publishing career and his brief but extraordinarily original life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780521445948
• ISBN-10: 0521445949
• Artikelnr.: 21879509

Inhaltsangabe

1. Thoreau's reputation Walter Harding
2. Thoreau and Concord Robert D. Richardson, Jr
3. Thoreau and Emerson Robert Sattelmeyer
4. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers Linck C. Johnson
5. Thoreau as poet Elizabeth Hall Wetherell
6. Thoreau and his audience Steven Fink
7.Walden Richard J. Schneider
8. Thoreau in his journal Leonard N. Neufeldt
9. The Maine Woods Joseph J. Moldenhauer
10. 'A Wild Rank Place': Thoreau's Cape Cod Philip F. Gura
11. Thoreau's later natural history writings Ronald Wesley Hoag
12. Thoreau and the natural environment Lawrence Buell
13. Thoreau and reform Len Gougeon
Index.