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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2016
      October 2016
      ISBN:
      9781316146002
      9781107094291
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316146002
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.57kg, 304 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      American History: General Interest, Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, History
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    Henry David Thoreau's thinking about a number of ​issues - including the relationship between humans and other species, just responses to state violence, the threat posed to human freedom by industrial capitalism, and the essential relation between scientific 'facts' and poetic 'truths' - speaks to our historical moment as clearly as it did to the 'restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century' into which he was born. This volume, marking the two-hundredth anniversary of Thoreau's birth, gathers the threads of the contemporary, interdisciplinary conversation around this key figure in literary, political, philosophical, and environmental thought, uniting new essays by scholars who have shaped the field with chapters by emerging scholars investigating previously underexplored aspects of Thoreau's life, writings, and activities. Both a dispatch from the front lines of Thoreau scholarship and a vivid demonstration of Thoreau's relevance for twenty-first-century life and thought, Thoreau at 200 will be of interest for both Thoreau scholars and general readers.

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    '… an authoritative array of well-informed insights that will be welcome indeedto anyone engaged in research on Thoreau or to those (why do they seem fewerthese days?) who teach him on college courses …'

    Albert J. Von Frank Source: Modern Intellectual History

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