Thoreau at 200 (eBook, ePUB)

Essays and Reassessments
Redaktion: Case, Kristen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Henry David Thoreau's thinking about a number of issues - including the relationship between humans and other species, just responses to state violence, the threat posed to human freedom by industrial capitalism, and the essential relation between scientific 'facts' and poetic 'truths' - speaks to our historical moment as clearly as it did to the 'restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century' into which he was born. This volume, marking the two-hundredth anniversary of Thoreau's birth, gathers the threads of the contemporary, interdisciplinary conversation around this key figure in literary, political, philosophical, and environmental thought, uniting new essays by scholars who have shaped the field with chapters by emerging scholars investigating previously underexplored aspects of Thoreau's life, writings, and activities. Both a dispatch from the front lines of Thoreau scholarship and a vivid demonstration of Thoreau's relevance for twenty-first-century life and thought, Thoreau at 200 will be of interest for both Thoreau scholars and general readers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316789247
• Artikelnr.: 47465046

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Kristen Case and K. P. Van Anglen; Part I. Thoreauvian
Materialism(s): 1. Thoreau's materialism and twenty-first-century
environmentalism Lance Newman; 2. A Free Soiler in his own broad sense:
Henry David Thoreau and the Free Soil movement James S. Finley; 3.
Emancipation from the 'invisible hand': Thoreau's 'economy of living' Susan
E. Gallagher; Part II. The Local Context: 4. Thoreau and Concord's black
history Elise Lemire; 5. Red Walden: Thoreau and Native America Joshua
David Bellin; 6. 'Beyond all men of his day': T. W. Higginson and Thoreau's
legacy in postbellum America Sandra Harbert Petrulionis; 7. 'The nick of
time': Thoreau, New England, and America from Early Republic to Civil War
Robert A. Gross; Part III. The Global Context: 8. Culture and conflict:
Thoreau, Great Britain, and the Civil War Len Gougeon; 9. Transnational
Thoreau: time, space, and relativity Paul Giles; 10. Coleridge, Thoreau,
and the transatlantic 'riddle of the world' Samantha Celeste Harvey and
Rochelle L. Johnson; 11. Hearing animals: Thoreau between fable and elegy
Wai Chee Dimock; Part IV. Thoreauvian Cosmos: 12. The value of mutual
intelligence: science, poetry, and Thoreau's cosmos Laura Dassow Walls; 13.
Disaffiliation as engagement Lawrence Buell; 14. Thoreau and Cavell:
unauthorized versions Lawrence Rhu; 15. Thoreau and the new American
spirituality Alan D. Hodder; 16. The rooster's philosophy, or the gospel
according to this moment Robert D. Richardson.