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Author:
Kuhn, Bernhard Helmut, 1969-
Title:
Autobiography and natural science in the age of Romanticism : Rousseau, Goethe, Thoreau / Bernhard Kuhn.
Publisher:
Ashgate,
Copyright Date:
c2009
Description:
viii, 171 p. ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Authors--Biography--History and criticism.
Autobiography
Natural history in literature
Self in literature
Identity (Psychology) in literature
Literature and science--History.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,--1712-1778--Confessions.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,--1712-1778--R©®veries du promeneur solitaire.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,--1749-1832--Aus meinem leben. Dichtung und wahrheit.
Thoreau, Henry David,--1817-1862--Walden.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The nature of identity and the identity of nature -- Natural science and the self in Rousseau's Confessions -- Reveries and the re-enchantement of nature -- Goethe's autobiographical science -- Self-formations: order and disorder in poetry and truth -- The metamorphosis of Thoreau -- Prolific hybrids : Walden and Thoreau's natural history.
ISBN:
0754696154 (ebook)
9780754696155 (ebook)
0754661660 (alk. paper)
9780754661665 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)314838737
LCCN:
2009008920
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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