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Author:

Newman, Lance.

Title:

Our common dwelling : Henry Thoreau, transcendentalism, and the class politics of nature / Lance Newman.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

xv, 255 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Thoreau, Henry David,--1817-1862--Political and social views.
Wordsworth, William,--1770-1850--Appreciation--New England.
Wordsworth, William,--1770-1850--Influence.
Politics and literature--New England--History--19th century.
Literature and society--New England--History--19th century.
Social classes--New England--History--19th century.
Transcendentalism (New England)
Social classes in literature.
Nature in literature.
New England--Social conditions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-245) and index.

Contents:

Commitments of ecocriticism -- Nature of cultural history -- Class struggle in New England -- Transcendentalism as a social movement -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, democracy, and the mob -- Margaret Fuller, Rock River, and the condition of America -- William Wordsworth in New England and the discipline of nature -- William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, and the poetry of nature -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Orestes Brownson, and transcendentalism -- Transcendentalist reformers, scholars, and nature -- Brook Farm and association -- Capitalism and the moral geography of Walden -- Walden, association, and organic idealism -- Nature, politics, and Thoreau's materialism -- Wild fruits, capitalism, and community -- Ecocriticism and the uses of nature writing -- Marxism, nature, and the discipline of history.

ISBN:

9781403967794 (alk. paper) :
1403967792 (alk. paper) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56686501

LCCN:

2004059985

Locations:

O4AX446 -- Chadwick Library

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)