Civilizing Thoreau: Human Ecology and the Emerging Social Sciences in the Major Works 9781571139603

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Автор: Schneider Richard J.
Название: Civilizing Thoreau: Human Ecology and the Emerging Social Sciences in the Major Works
ISBN: 9781571139603
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
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Литературоведение: с 1500 до 1800 г.

ISBN-10: 1571139605
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 222
Вес: 0.50 кг.
Дата издания: 01.05.2016
Серия: Literature/Literary Studies
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 152 x 16
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Recent book-length studies of Thoreau have focused either on his place in the history of the natural sciences or have applied political principles to his works. None, however, has fully addressed what ecocritic Rebecca Solnit calls the Thoreau problem, the compartmentalizing of Thoreaus mind into either that of a hermit of nature or that of a champion of social reform. This book proposes an interdisciplinary solution to this problem through the connection between Thoreaus ecological study of nature and his intense interest in the emerging social sciences, especially the history of civilization and ethnology. The book first establishes Thoreaus human ecology, the relation between the natural sciences and the social sciences in his thinking, exploring how his reading in contemporary books about the history of humanity and racial science shaped his thinking and connecting these emerging anthropological texts to his late nature writings. It then discusses these connections in his major works, including Walden and his reform papers such as Civil Disobedience, the travel narrative A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, and Cape Cod. The concluding chapter focuses on Thoreaus attitude toward Manifest Destiny, arguing, against conventional views, that considering both his life and his writing, especially the essay Walking, we must conclude that he both accepted and endorsed Manifest Destiny as an inevitable result of cultural succession. Richard J. Schneider is Professor Emeritus from Wartburg College. He has authored a monograph and many articles as well as edited three collections on Thoreau.

Civilizing Thoreau: Human Ecology and the Emerging Social Sciences in the Major Works, Schneider Richard J.