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Henry David Thoreau
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The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau by Joel Myerson (Editor)ISBN: 9780521440370
Publication Date: 1995-06-30
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 and later books. It also serves in some ways as a biographical guide.
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The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture by Lawrence BuellISBN: 9780674258617
Publication Date: 1995-02-01
The Environmental Imagination is the most ambitious study to date of how literature represents the natural environment. With Thoreau's Walden as a touchstone, Buell gives us a far-reaching account of environmental perception, the place of nature in the history of western thought, and the consequences for literary scholarship of attempting to imagine a more ecocentric way of being. In doing so, he provides a major new understanding of Thoreau's achievement.
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Henry David Thoreau by Harold Bloom (Introduction by)ISBN: 9780877546979
Publication Date: 1988-01-01
This collection of critical essays on the works of Henry David Thoreau is arranged in chronological order of original publication. These essays consider such writings as Walden and Civil Disobedience.
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Henry David Thoreau: What Manner of Man? by Edward WagenknechtISBN: 9780870231360
Publication Date: 1981-01-01
This book presents an insightful, multifaceted portrait of Thoreau, both as man and writer, that discusses such topics as Thoreau's physical appearance, temperament and tastes; his relationships with others; his ideas about the state, war and pacifism; his interest in sports, nature, science and technology; his attitudes toward Native Americans, blacks and other ethnic minorities; and his views on sex, morality, religion and death. The major controversies in Thoreau scholarship, such as his alleged misanthropy, are explored.
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Dark Thoreau by Richard BridgmanISBN: 9780803211674
Publication Date: 1982-01-01
Henry David Thoreau has suffered from a largely uncritical admiration of his roles as naturalist, economist, political theorist, and expository writer. The evidence this book presents substantially modifies our understanding of his performance of those roles. It draws heavily on the largely unknown territory of Thoreau's seven thousand pages of journals as well as his poetry, while at the same time subjecting passages from such familiar work as Walden to fresh interpretation.
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The Political Thought of Henry David Thoreau: Privatism and the Practice of Philosophy by Jonathan McKenzieISBN: 9780813166322
Publication Date: 2016-01-22
In The Political Thought of Henry David Thoreau, Jonathan McKenzie analyzes not only Thoreau's well-known works but also his journals and correspondence to provide a fresh portrait of the Sage of Walden as a radical individualist. This new account examines the influence that ancient philosophers, particularly the Stoics, had on Thoreau and demonstrates his importance as one of the best modern interpreters of Socrates's vision of the self.
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Thoreau and the Language of Trees by Richard HigginsISBN: 9780520967311
Publication Date: 2017-04-04
In this original book, Richard Higgins explores Thoreau's deep connections to trees: his keen perception of them, the joy they gave him, the poetry he saw in them, his philosophical view of them, and how they fed his soul. Included are one hundred excerpts from Thoreau's writings about trees, paired with over sixty of the author's photographs.
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Finding Thoreau: The Meaning of Nature in the Making of an Environmental Icon by Richard W. JuddISBN: 9781625343888
Publication Date: 2018-10-16
Finding Thoreau traces the reception of Thoreau's work from the time of his death to his ascendancy as an environmental icon in the 1970s, revealing insights into American culture's conception of the environment. Moving decade by decade through this period, Richard W. Judd unveils a cache of commentary from intellectuals, critics, and journalists to demonstrate the dynamism in the idea of nature, as Americans defined and redefined the organic world around them amidst shifting intellectual, creative, and political forces.
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When I Came to Die: Process and Prophecy in Thoreau's Vision of Dying by Audrey RadenISBN: 9781625342409
Publication Date: 2016-12-27
In beautiful prose, Audrey Raden places Thoreau's views of death and dying at the center of his work, contending that it is crucial to consider the specific historical and regional contexts in which he lived to fully appreciate his perspectives. When I Came to Die suggests that throughout his writings, Thoreau communicated that knowing how to die properly is an art and a lifelong study, a perspective that informed his ideas about politics, nature, and individualism.
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Excursions with Thoreau: Philosophy, Poetry, Religion by Edward F. MooneyISBN: 9781501305672
Publication Date: 2015-10-22
Excursions with Thoreau is a major new exploration of Thoreau's writing and thought that is philosophical yet sensitive to the literary and religious. Edward F. Mooney's excursions through passages from Walden, Cape Cod, and his late essay "Walking" reveal Thoreau as a miraculous writer, artist, and religious adept. Of course Thoreau remains the familiar political activist and environmental philosopher, but in these fifteen excursions we discover new terrain.
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The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau by 
The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture by 
Thoreau's Sense of Place: Essays in American Environmental Writing by 
Henry David Thoreau by 
The Political Thought of Henry David Thoreau: Privatism and the Practice of Philosophy by 
Thoreau and the Language of Trees by 
Finding Thoreau: The Meaning of Nature in the Making of an Environmental Icon by 
When I Came to Die: Process and Prophecy in Thoreau's Vision of Dying by 
Thoreau in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates by 
Excursions with Thoreau: Philosophy, Poetry, Religion by