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The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau

Book - 1995 818.07 Th 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4 out of 5

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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.
The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting essays by a distinguished array of contributors, the Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings such as A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, on the monumental Walden, or on his Journal and later writings. It also serves as a biographical guide, offering insights into his publishing career and his brief but extraordinarily original life. In short, the Companion helps the reader to approach Thoreau's writings, as he would say, "deliberately and reservedly," by suggesting how Thoreau uses language, how his biography informs his writing, how personal and historical influences shaped his career, and how his writings function as literary works.

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