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  • Thoreauvian Modernities

    Transatlantic Conversations on an American Icon

    by Bruno Monfort, Christian Maul, David Dowling, David Robinson, Dieter Schulz, Henrik Otterberg, Joseph Urbas, Kristen Case, Michael Jonik, Michel Imbert, Randall Conrad0, Thomas Pughe1, William Rossi2, François Specq4, Laura Dassow Walls6, Michel Granger8 ...
    Does Thoreau belong to the past or to the future? Instead of canonizing him as a celebrant of “pure” nature apart from the corruption of civilization, the essays in Thoreauvian Modernities reveal edgier facets of his work—how Thoreau is able to unsettle as well as inspire and how he is able to focus on both the timeless and the timely. Contributors from the United States and Europe explore Thoreau ... Read more

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  • When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness

    by Rowan Ricardo Phillips ...
    Series series Dalkey Archive Scholarly
    In When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness, Rowan Ricardo Phillips pushes African American poetry to its limits by unraveling “our desire to think of African American poetry as African American poetry.” Phillips reads African American poetry as inherently allegorical and thus “a successful shorthand for the survival of a poetry but unsuccessful shorthand for the sustenance of its poems.” Arguing in ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau

    Edited by Joel Myerson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau is intended as an accessible guide to reading and understanding the works of Thoreau. Presenting essays by a distinguished array of contributors, the Companion is a valuable resource for historical and contextual material, whether on early writings like A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, on the monumental Walden, or on his assorted journals ... Read more

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  • This New Yet Unapproachable America

    Lectures after Emerson after Wittgenstein

    by Stanley Cavell ...
    Stanley Cavell is a titan of the academic world; his work in aesthetics and philosophy has shaped both fields in the United States over the past forty years. In this brief yet enlightening collection of lectures, Cavell investigates the work of two of his most tried-and-true subjects: Emerson and Wittgenstein. Beginning with an introductory essay that places his own work in a philosophical and ... Read more

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  • Ecology without Nature

    Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics

    by Timothy Morton ...
    In Ecology without Nature, Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature itself. Ecological writers propose a new worldview, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from the "nature" they revere. The problem is a symptom of the ecological catastrophe in which we are living. Morton sets out a seeming paradox: to have ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Edited by Joel Porte, Saundra Morris ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson provides a critical introduction to pastor and poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson, author of Nature and The Conduct of Life. The tradition of American literature and philosophy as we know it at the end of the twentieth century was largely shaped by Emerson's example and practice. This volume offers students, scholars, and the general reader a collection of ... Read more

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  • Literary Transcendentalism

    Style and Vision in the American Renaissance

    by Lawrence Buell ...
    Broader in scope than any previous literary study of the transcendentalists, this rewarding book analyzes the theories and forms characteristic of a vital group of American writers, as well as the principles and vision underlying transcendentalism. All the movement's major literary figures and forms are considered in detail.Lawrence Buell combines intellectual history and critical explication, ... Read more

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  • Walden x 40

    Essays on Thoreau

    by Robert B. Ray ...
    Provocative and illuminating essays on Thoreau's masterwork, shedding new light on its enduring inspiration and philosophical depth.In 1845, Henry David Thoreau moved from his parents' house in Concord, Massachusetts, to a one-room cabin he built himself on the land of his mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson. He described his time there, just over two years, as an experiment in "living deliberately." His ... Read more

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  • Ariel's Ecology

    Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics

    by Monique Allewaert ...
    What happens if we abandon the assumption that a person is a discrete, world-making agent who acts on and creates place? This, Monique Allewaert contends, is precisely what occurred on eighteenth-century American plantations, where labor practices and ecological particularities threatened the literal and conceptual boundaries that separated persons from the natural world.Integrating political ... Read more

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  • A Political Companion to Herman Melville

    Edited by Jason Frank ...
    Series series Political Companions to Great American Authors
    Herman Melville is widely considered to be one of America's greatest authors, and countless literary theorists and critics have studied his life and work. However, political theorists have tended to avoid Melville, turning rather to such contemporaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau to understand the political thought of the American Renaissance. While Melville was not an activist ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Robert Frost

    Edited by Robert Faggen ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Robert Frost's poetry and life. Frost remains one of the most memorable and beguiling of modern poets. Writing in the tradition of Virgil, Milton, and Wordsworth, he transformed pastoral and georgic poetry both in subject matter and form. Mastering the rhythms of ordinary speech, Frost made country ... Read more

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  • A Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Edited by Alan M. Levine, Daniel S. Malachuk ...
    Series series Political Companions to Great American Authors
    From before the Civil War until his death in 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson was renowned—and renounced—as one of the United States' most prominent abolitionists and as a leading visionary of the nation's liberal democratic future. Following his death, however, both Emerson's political activism and his political thought faded from public memory, replaced by the myth of the genteel man of letters and the ... Read more

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