Reimagining Thoreau
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Reimagining Thoreau
(Cambridge studies in American literature and culture, 85)
Cambridge University Press, 1995
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Reimagining Thoreau synthesises the interests of the intellectual and psychological biographer and the literary critic in a reconsideration of Thoreau's career from his graduation from Harvard in 1837 to his death in 1862. The purposes of the book are threefold: to situate Thoreau's aims and achievements as a writer within the context of his troubled relationship to a microcosm of ante-bellum Concord; to reinterpret Walden as a temporally layered text in light of the successive drafts of the book and the evidence of Thoreau's journals and contemporaneous writings; and, to overturn traditional views of Thoreau's 'decline' by offering a new estimate of the post-Walden writing and its place within Thoreau's development.
Table of Contents
- Part I. 1837-49: 1. 'A false position in society'
- 2. 'Under the eyelids of time': A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
- Part II. 1845-54: 3. Disconstructing Walden
- 4. Walden and the rhetoric of ascent
- 5. Interregnum (1849-52)
- 6. Defying gravity
- Part III. 1854-62: 7. 'A point of interest somewhere between' (1854-7)
- 8. 'Annexing new territories' (1857-62)
- Notes
- Index.
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