UID:
almahu_9949296977902882
Format:
1 online resource (368 p.) :
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2 b/w illus.
ISBN:
9780691230955
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9783110754001
Content:
From twenty-seven of today's leading writers, an anthology of original pieces on the author of WaldenFeatures essays by Jennifer Finney Boylan ● Kristen Case ● George Howe Colt ● Gerald Early ● Paul Elie ● Will Eno ● Adam Gopnik ● Lauren Groff ● Celeste Headlee ● Pico Iyer ● Alan Lightman ● James Marcus ● Megan Marshall ● Michelle Nijhuis ● Zoë Pollak ● Jordan Salama ● Tatiana Schlossberg ● A. O. Scott ● Mona Simpson ● Stacey Vanek Smith ● Wen Stephenson ● Robert Sullivan ● Amor Towles ● Sherry Turkle ● Geoff Wisner ● Rafia Zakaria ● and a cartoon by Sandra BoyntonThe world is never done catching up with Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), the author of Walden, "Civil Disobedience," and other classics. A prophet of environmentalism and vegetarianism, an abolitionist, and a critic of materialism and technology, Thoreau even seems to have anticipated a world of social distancing in his famous experiment at Walden Pond. In Now Comes Good Sailing, twenty-seven of today's leading writers offer wide-ranging original pieces exploring how Thoreau has influenced and inspired them-and why he matters more than ever in an age of climate, racial, and technological reckoning.Here, Lauren Groff retreats from the COVID-19 pandemic to a rural house and writing hut, where, unable to write, she re-reads Walden; Pico Iyer describes how Thoreau provided him with an unlikely guidebook to Japan; Gerald Early examines Walden and the Black quest for nature; Rafia Zakaria reflects on solitude, from Thoreau's Concord to her native Pakistan; Mona Simpson follows in Thoreau's footsteps at Maine's Mount Katahdin; Jennifer Finney Boylan reads Thoreau in relation to her experience of coming out as a trans woman; Adam Gopnik traces Thoreau's influence on The New Yorker editor E. B. White and his book Charlotte's Web; and there's much more.The result is a lively and compelling collection that richly demonstrates the countless ways Thoreau continues to move, challenge, and provoke readers today.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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Preface --
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Acknowledgments --
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Excursions near and Far --
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Wild Apples --
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My Guidebook to Japan --
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Walden and the Black Quest for Nature, or My Summer Vacation with Big Sis --
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Twenty-Four Hours on Pea Island --
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The Fragility of Solitude --
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My Failure --
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Without --
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Deliberate Living --
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To a Slower Life --
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Walden as an Art --
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The Year of Not Living Thickly --
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If I Had Loved Her Less --
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Following Thoreau --
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Directions of his Dreams --
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Thoreau on Ice --
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"The Record of My Love": Thoreau and the Art of Science --
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The Apples of His Eye --
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You Bring the Weather with You --
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Thoreau in Love --
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Practicalities --
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As for Clothing --
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On Pencils and Purpose --
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The House That Thoreau Built --
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Is It Worth the While? --
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A Few Elements of American Style --
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At Walden --
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Concord Is a Kind of Word --
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Dolittle's Rebellion --
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Ice, for the Time Being --
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Walden at Midnight: Three Walks with Thoreau --
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Simplify, Simplify --
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Notes --
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Contributors --
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Credits
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English, De Gruyter, 9783110754001
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021 English, De Gruyter, 9783110754124
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110753899
In:
Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110739121
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691230955
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691230955
