Title Our common dwelling : Henry Thoreau, transcendentalism, and the class politics of nature / Lance Newman

Edition 1st ed Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 255 pages) Contents The Commitments of Ecocriticism * The Nature of Cultural History * Class Struggle in New England * Transcendentalism as a Social Movement * Nathaniel Hawthorne, Democracy, and the Mob * Margaret Fuller, Rock River, and the Condition of America * William Wordsworth in New England and the Discipline of Nature * William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, and the Poetry of Nature * Ralph Waldo Emerson, Orestes Brownson, and Transcendentalism * Transcendentalist Reformers, Scholars, and Nature * Brook Farm and Association * Capitalism and the Moral Geography of Walden * Walden, Association, and Organic Idealism * Nature, Politics, and Thoreau's Materialism * Wild Fruits, Capitalism, and Community * Ecocriticism and the Uses of Nature Writing * Marxism, Nature, and the Discipline of History Summary Lance Newman explores why America's first literary circle turned to nature in the 1830s and 40s. When the New England Transcendentalists spiritualized nature, they were reacting to intense class conflict in the region's industrializing cities. Their goal was to find a secular foundation for their social authority as an intellectual elite. Our Common Dwelling engages with works by William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others. The works of these great authors, interpreted in historical context, show that both environmental exploitation and conscious love of nature co-evolved as part of the historical development of American capitalism Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-245) and index Notes Print version record Subject Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Political and social views Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Appreciation -- New England Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Influence Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 Politics and literature -- New England -- History -- 19th century Literature and society -- New England -- History -- 19th century Social classes -- New England -- History -- 19th century Transcendentalism (New England) Social classes in literature. Nature in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Art appreciation Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Literature and society Nature in literature Political and social views Politics and literature Social classes Social classes in literature Social conditions Transcendentalism (New England) New England -- Social conditions New England Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781403973535 1403973539 9781403967794 1403967792

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