UID:
edocfu_9959695962502883
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 224 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-81528-8
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1-139-00021-7
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to literature
Content:
The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is intended as an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting essays by a distinguished array of contributors, the Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings like A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, on the monumental Walden, or on his assorted journals and later books. It also serves in some ways as a biographical guide, offering new insights into his turbulent publishing career, and his brief but extraordinarily original life. In short, the Companion helps the reader come to Thoreau's writings, as he would say, 'deliberately and reservedly' by suggesting how Thoreau uses language, how his biography informs his writing, how personal and historical influences shaped his career, and how his writings function as literary works.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
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Thoreau's reputation / Walter Harding -- Thoreau and Concord / Robert D. Richardson, Jr. -- Thoreau and Emerson / Robert Sattelmeyer -- "A week on the Concord and Merrimack rivers" / Linck C. Johnson -- Thoreau as poet / Elizabeth Hall Witherell -- Thoreau and his audience / Steven Fink -- "Walden" / Richard J. Schneider -- Thoreau in his Journal / Leonard N. Neufeldt -- "The Maine woods" / Joseph J. Moldenhauer -- "A wild, rank place": Thoreau's Cape Cod / Philip F. Gura -- Thoreau's later natural history writings / Ronald Wesley Hoag -- Thoreau and the natural environment / Lawrence Buell --Thoreau and reform / Len Gougeon.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-44594-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-44037-8
Language:
English
