A Historical Guide To Henry David Thoreau
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Author | : William E. Cain |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0195138635 |
Thoreau - philosopher, essayist, hermit, tax protester and original thinker - led a singular life. This biography includes contributions of his relationship with 19th cent authority and concepts of the land.
Author | : Robert M. Thorson |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1328489175 |
The first guidebook to the landscape and history of the literary shrine to Thoreau, Walden Pond.
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Cape Cod (Mass.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Laura Dassow Walls |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 668 |
Release | : 2017-07-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 022634469X |
"[The author] traces the full arc of Thoreau’s life, from his early days in the intellectual hothouse of Concord, when the American experiment still felt fresh and precarious, and 'America was a family affair, earned by one generation and about to pass to the next.' By the time he died in 1862, at only forty-four years of age, Thoreau had witnessed the transformation of his world from a community of farmers and artisans into a bustling, interconnected commercial nation. What did that portend for the contemplative individual and abundant, wild nature that Thoreau celebrated? Drawing on Thoreau’s copious writings, published and unpublished, [the author] presents a Thoreau vigorously alive in all his quirks and contradictions: the young man shattered by the sudden death of his brother; the ambitious Harvard College student; the ecstatic visionary who closed Walden with an account of the regenerative power of the Cosmos. We meet the man whose belief in human freedom and the value of labor made him an uncompromising abolitionist; the solitary walker who found society in nature, but also found his own nature in the society of which he was a deeply interwoven part. And, running through it all, Thoreau the passionate naturalist, who, long before the age of environmentalism, saw tragedy for future generations in the human heedlessness around him."--
Author | : William Howarth |
Publisher | : Beacon Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2001-05-16 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780807085554 |
A Literary Guide to the Mountains of New England Commentary by William Howarth Walking with Thoreau features Henry David Thoreau's writings on nine New England mountains. William Howarth's illuminating commentary, printed alongside Thoreau's text, allows the presentday hiker to retrace Thoreau's footsteps up some of New England's most popular mountain destinations.
Author | : Henry David Thoreau |
Publisher | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 799 |
Release | : 2000-11-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0679642021 |
Henry David Thoreau's vision of personal freedom is indelibly etched on the American consciousness. 'We need the tonic of wildness,' Thoreau wrote in Walden, and by turning his back on town amenities to build a house on Walden Pond in 1845, he helped shape our notions of the individual, subsistence, and a moral relation to nature. Raising white beans and potatoes that he sold to his Concord neighbors, he stayed for two years; his book records both the philosophy he developed while living alone and the facts of his everyday life. Included here with the complete text of Walden are selections from Thoreau's first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; 'A Plea for Captain John Brown,' his eloquent defense of the American abolitionist's rebellion at Harper's Ferry, and such masterpieces as his famous essay 'Civil Disobedience,' in which he describes a night spent in prison for refusing to pay a poll tax to a government that condoned slavery.
Author | : Raymond R. Borst |
Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Gale, Cengage Learning |
Publisher | : Gale, Cengage Learning |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2015-09-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1410335291 |
A Study Guide for Henry David Thoreau's "Walden and Other Writings," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Nonfiction Classics for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Nonfiction Classics for Students for all of your research needs.
Author | : Gale, Cengage Learning |
Publisher | : Gale, Cengage Learning |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1535845074 |
A Study Guide for Henry David Thoreau's "Walden", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Studentsfor all of your research needs.
Author | : John Carlos Rowe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2012-02-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019512135X |
An excellent primer to the work and milieu of Henry James, this collection of essays highlights the historical and cultural issues that influenced the great novelist.