Thoreau at 200
：Essays and Reassessments
Publication subTitle ：Essays and Reassessments
Author： Kristen Case; K. P. Van Anglen
Publisher： Cambridge University Press
Publication year： 2016
E-ISBN: 9781316792605
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781107094291
Subject： I Literature
Keyword： 文学
Language： ENG
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Thoreau at 200
Description
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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