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:
| ISBN: | 9780521461498 |
| Publication date: | 31st March 1995 |
| Author: | Robert Milder |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 237 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 |
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.
Reimagining Thoreau features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
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Reimagining Thoreau was written by Robert Milder and published by Cambridge University Press
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