Thoreau at Two Hundred : Essays and Reassessments
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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.
ISBN
978-1107094291
Publication Date
2016
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
City
New York
Keywords
Henry David Thoreau, criticism, philosophy
Disciplines
Literature in English, North America
Recommended Citation
Case (editor), Kristen and Van Anglen, K. P., "Thoreau at Two Hundred : Essays and Reassessments" (2016). Faculty and Staff Books. 11.
https://scholarworks.umf.maine.edu/publications/11
