New Essays on Walden - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0521424828 ISBN 13: 9780521424820

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Riassunto

New Essays on Walden reviews Thoreau's classic from four important perspectives. Lawrence Buell explains how decisions by Thoreau's publisher combined with promotion of Thoreau by early Thoreauvians, literary critics and reviewers turned Walden into a classic. Nature writer and ecologist Anne LaBastille writes of her own responses to Walden. H. Daniel Peck examines how the pastoralism of Walden serves to contain not only the forces of industrialism and commerce in American society but also psychic forces in Thoreau's inner life. Finally Michael Fischer re-evaluates Walden in the light of modern literary theory, finding that Thoreau's forthrightness in presenting and analyzing his own politics disarms his skeptical critics. In introducing these new essays, Robert F. Sayre provides a masterful short biography of Thoreau, an account of the writing of Walden, and a summary of other critical views.

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Recensione:

"Read alongside Walden, I can think of no better way to introduce undergraduates to Thoreau and to issues of contemporary cultural criticism." Jane Bennett, Canadian Review of American Studies

Descrizione del libro:

A review of Thoreau's classic from four important contemporary perspectives - promotional, ecological, philosophical, and literary - is prefaced by a short biography of the author, an account of the writing of Walden, and a summary of other critical views.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521424828
• ISBN 13: 9780521424820
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 128
• Redattore: Sayre Robert F.