Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-291) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE THOREAU AND (NON)MODERNITY -- Walking West, Gazing East: Planetarity on the Shores of Cape Cod / Laura Dassow Walls -- Antimodern Thoreau / Michel Granger -- Thoreau's Multiple Modernities / William Rossi -- Thoreau, Modernity, and Nature's Seasons / David M. Robinson -- An Infinite Road to the Golden Age: A Close Reading of Thoreau's "Road -- that old Carlisle one" in the Late Journal (24 September 1859) / Randall Conrad -- pt. TWO THOREAU AND PHILOSOPHY -- Being Is the Great Explainer": Thoreau and the Ontological Turn in American Thought / Joseph Urbas -- Character and Nature: Toward an Aristotelian Understanding of Thoreau's Literary Portraits and Environmental Poetics / Henrik Otterberg -- Thoreau's Work on Myth: The Modern and the Primitive / Bruno Monfort -- A Sort of Hybrid Product": Thoreau's Individualism between Liberalism and Communitarianism / Christian Maul -- pt. THREE THOREAU, LANGUAGE, AND THE WILD -- Nature, Knowledge, and the Method of Thoreau's Excursions / Dieter Schulz -- Thoreau's Radical Empiricism: The Kalendar, Pragmatism, and Science / Kristen Case -- The Maze of Phenomena": Perception and Particular Knowledge in Thoreau's Journal / Michael Jonik -- Poetics of Thoreau's Journal and Postmodern Aesthetics / Francois Specq -- Fraught Ecstasy: Contemporary Encounters with Thoreau's Postpristine Nature / David Dowling -- Brute Neighbors: The Modernity of a Metaphor / Thomas Pughe -- Tawny Grammar": Words in the Wild / Michel Imbert.
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