| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 224 pages) |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to literature
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
This Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on Thoreau's 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 turbid publishing career, and his brief but extraordinarily original life |
| Analysis |
English literature |
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United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Criticism and interpretation
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American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Author |
Myerson, Joel
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| ISBN |
0511222157 (electronic bk. ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511222153 (electronic bk. ; Adobe Reader) |
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1139000217 |
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9781139000215 |
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