書誌事項

New essays on Walden

edited by Robert F. Sayre

(The American novel / general editor, Emory Elliott)

Cambridge University Press, 1992

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

タイトル別名

New essays on Thoreau's Walden

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注記

Bibliography: p. 115-117

収録内容

  • Introduction / Robert F. Sayre
  • Henry Thoreau enters the American canon / Lawrence Buell
  • "Fishing in the sky" / Anne Labastille
  • The crosscurrents of Walden's pastoral / H. Daniel Peck
  • Walden and the politics of contemporary literary theory / Michael R. Fischer

内容説明・目次

内容説明

New Essays on Walden reviews Thoreau's classic from four important perspectives. Lawrence Buell explains how decisions by Thoreau's publisher combined with promotion of Thoreau by early Thoreauvians, literary critics and reviewers turned Walden into a classic. Nature writer and ecologist Anne LaBastille writes of her own responses to Walden. H. Daniel Peck examines how the pastoralism of Walden serves to contain not only the forces of industrialism and commerce in American society but also psychic forces in Thoreau's inner life. Finally Michael Fischer re-evaluates Walden in the light of modern literary theory, finding that Thoreau's forthrightness in presenting and analyzing his own politics disarms his skeptical critics. In introducing these new essays, Robert F. Sayre provides a masterful short biography of Thoreau, an account of the writing of Walden, and a summary of other critical views.

目次

  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction Robert F. Sayre
  • 2. Henry Thoreau enters the American canon Lawrence Buell
  • 3. Fishing in the sky Anne Labastille
  • 4. The crosscurrents of Walden's pastoral H. Daniel Peck
  • 5. Walden and the politics of contemporary literary theory Michael R. Fischer
  • Notes
  • Bibliography.

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