Thoreau beyond borders : new international essays on America's most famous nature writer /

"Henry David Thoreau spent his life as an intellectual vagrant, jumping fences, pushing boundaries, and crossing borders. How, why, and to what end are the questions asked by contributors to this new volume of essays, whose work crosses national and disciplinary borders to think about Thoreau a...

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Other Authors: Specq, François, 1965- (Editor), Walls, Laura Dassow (Editor), Nègre, Julien (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • An Imperfect Indian Wisdom: Thoreau, Ecocultural Contact, And The Spirit Of Place / John J. Kucich
  • Cape Cod's Transnational Bodies / Christa Holm Vogelius
  • Beyond The Borders Of Time: Thoreau And The "Ante-Pilgrim History" Of The New World / Michael C. Weisenburg
  • Making The Invisible Visible: Thoreau's Texts And/As Mapping Practices / Julien Negre
  • Rhetoric Of Empire And Poetic Borderlands In Thoreau's "Walking" / Francois Specq
  • Opening Walden / Henrik Otterberg
  • Materialities Of Thought: Botanical Geography And The Curation Of Resilience In Susan Fenimore Cooper And Henry David Thoreau / Rochelle L. Johnson
  • "A Crash Is Apt To Grate Agreeably On Our Ears": Thoreau And Dissonance / Danielle Follett
  • Beyond Temporal Borders: The Music Of Thoreau's Kalendar / Kristen Case
  • "Wider Than Our Views Of It": Thoreau's Universalism / Daniel S. Malachuk
  • Cape Cod, Literature, And The Illocality Of Thinking About Capital / Benjamin Pickford
  • Between "That Fartherest Western Way" And "The University Of The West": Thoreau's Dialectic Of Reform / Sandra Harbert Petrulionis
  • Thoreau: Crossing To The Sacred / David M. Robinson
  • Counter Frictions: Thoreau And The Integral Commons / Laura Dassow Walls.