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Thoreau at two hundred : essays and reassessments /
"This volume examines Thoreau's life, writings and thought on the 200th anniversary of his birth. Written by distinguished scholars of Thoreau's life and works, it provides a comprehensive examination of Thoreau's continued relevance today. Subjects covered include Thoreau and th...
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction Kristen Case and K. P. Van Anglen; Part I. Thoreauvian Materialism(s): 1. Thoreau's materialism and twenty-first-century environmentalism Lance Newman; 2. A Free Soiler in his own broad sense: Henry David Thoreau and the Free Soil movement James S. Finley; 3. Emancipation from the 'invisible hand': Thoreau's 'economy of living' Susan E. Gallagher; Part II. The Local Context: 4. Thoreau and Concord's black history Elise Lemire; 5. Red Walden: Thoreau and Native America Joshua David Bellin; 6. 'Beyond all men of his day': T. W. Higginson and Thoreau's legacy in postbellum America Sandra Harbert Petrulionis; 7. 'The nick of time': Thoreau, New England, and America from Early Republic to Civil War Robert A. Gross; Part III. The Global Context: 8. Culture and conflict: Thoreau, Great Britain, and the Civil War Len Gougeon; 9. Transnational Thoreau: time, space, and relativity Paul Giles; 10. Coleridge, Thoreau, and the transatlantic 'riddle of the world' Samantha Celeste Harvey and Rochelle L. Johnson; 11. Hearing animals: Thoreau between fable and elegy Wai Chee Dimock; Part IV. Thoreauvian Cosmos: 12. The value of mutual intelligence: science, poetry, and Thoreau's cosmos Laura Dassow Walls; 13. Disaffiliation as engagement Lawrence Buell; 14. Thoreau and Cavell: unauthorized versions Lawrence Rhu; 15. Thoreau and the new American spirituality Alan D. Hodder; 16. The rooster's philosophy, or the gospel according to this moment Robert D. Richardson.